Search Results: Rain by W Somerset Maugham

NY: Dell Publishing Company; (1921/1951). First Edition . Mass Market Paperback. Paperback original (Dell Ten Cent #2), very good in original wraps. Some wear to covers; pages are browned. Tiny corner chip of front cover at lower right corner. Clean, tight copy with no names or other markings in the book.

dell 10 cent, , (ORIGINAL 1951), first edition. 2, very good , , (ADVENTURE NOVELETTE), , paperback,

United States: Dell 10 Cent 2, 1951. Solid with creases on the covers.. 1st Printing. Paperback. Good.

dell 10 cent, , (ORIGINAL 1951), first edition. 2, very good +, , (ADVENTURE NOVELETTE), , paperback,

IDB Productions, 2016-01-01. MP3 CD. New. This item is a brand new factory sealed MP3 disc supplied in a DVD case

MP3 Audio CD. Rain (Version 2) It was nearly bed-time and when they awoke next morning land would be in sight. Dr Macphail lit his pipe and, leaning over the rail, searched the heavens for the Southern Cross. After two years at the front and a wound that had taken longer to heal than it should, he was glad to settle down quietly at Apia for twelve months at least, and he felt already better for the journey. Since some of the passengers were leaving the ship next day at Pago-Pago they had had a little dance that evening and in his ears hammered still the harsh notes of the mechanical piano. But the deck was quiet at last. A little way off he saw his wife in a long chair talking with the Davidsons, and he strolled over to her. When he sat down under the light and took off his hat you saw that he had very red hair, with a bald patch on the crown, and the red, freckled skin which accompanies red hair; he was a man of forty, thin, with a pinched face, precise and rather pedantic; and he spoke with a… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Human nature and sexuality are not easy to overcome, to say the least. Anyone who has tried to uphold beliefs and ideals that went against the nature of what their own bodies would require ? from nourishment to sex, and everything in between ? failed quite miserably. This is precisely the point that W. Somerset Maugham seeks to make through his Rain Stories.This collection includes a few of Maugham?s most famous and well-received short stories, such as Rain ? the tale of two couples stuck on a Pacific Island and quarantined during the wet season. Due to the presence of a young American prostitute, it?s only a matter of time before the mild-mannered doctor and his wife, as well as the missionary couple residing in the same building, will start to experience a few alarming challenges.Maugham?s other stories, such as Pool ? the tale of a colonial and his native wife ? or Mackintosh ? the story of a colonial master who rules with an iron fist ? all speak about the flawed approach of colonial… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Rain It was nearly bed-time and when they awoke next morning land would be in sight. Dr Macphail lit his pipe and, leaning over the rail, searched the heavens for the Southern Cross. After two years at the front and a wound that had taken longer to heal than it should, he was glad to settle down quietly at Apia for twelve months at least, and he felt already better for the journey. Since some of the passengers were leaving the ship next day at Pago-Pago they had had a little dance that evening and in his ears hammered still the harsh notes of the mechanical piano. But the deck was quiet at last. A little way off he saw his wife in a long chair talking with the Davidsons, and he strolled over to her. When he sat down under the light and took off his hat you saw that he had very red hair, with a bald patch on the crown, and the red, freckled skin which accompanies red hair; he was a man of forty, thin, with a pinched face, precise and rather pedantic; and he spoke with a Scots accent in… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Rain (Version 2) It was nearly bed-time and when they awoke next morning land would be in sight. Dr Macphail lit his pipe and, leaning over the rail, searched the heavens for the Southern Cross. After two years at the front and a wound that had taken longer to heal than it should, he was glad to settle down quietly at Apia for twelve months at least, and he felt already better for the journey. Since some of the passengers were leaving the ship next day at Pago-Pago they had had a little dance that evening and in his ears hammered still the harsh notes of the mechanical piano. But the deck was quiet at last. A little way off he saw his wife in a long chair talking with the Davidsons, and he strolled over to her. When he sat down under the light and took off his hat you saw that he had very red hair, with a bald patch on the crown, and the red, freckled skin which accompanies red hair; he was a man of forty, thin, with a pinched face, precise and rather pedantic; and he spoke with a… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Rain It was nearly bed-time and when they awoke next morning land would be in sight. Dr Macphail lit his pipe and, leaning over the rail, searched the heavens for the Southern Cross. After two years at the front and a wound that had taken longer to heal than it should, he was glad to settle down quietly at Apia for twelve months at least, and he felt already better for the journey. Since some of the passengers were leaving the ship next day at Pago-Pago they had had a little dance that evening and in his ears hammered still the harsh notes of the mechanical piano. But the deck was quiet at last. A little way off he saw his wife in a long chair talking with the Davidsons, and he strolled over to her. When he sat down under the light and took off his hat you saw that he had very red hair, with a bald patch on the crown, and the red, freckled skin which accompanies red hair; he was a man of forty, thin, with a pinched face, precise and rather pedantic; and he spoke with a Scots accent in… Read More