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Somerset maugham collected short stories volume 3 contents miss king the hairless mexican giulia lazzari the traitor his excellency mr harringtons washing sanatorium miss king it was not till the beginning of september that ashenden, a writer by profession, who had been abroad at the outbreak of the war, managed to get back to england. Born in the british embassy in paris, where his father worked, maugham was an orphan by the age of ten. Somerset maugham toilet things, and i observed that he was a patron of the excellent monsieur coty. Somerset maugham, cateva pareri despre ea ar fi foarte utile. Thomass hospital with the idea of practising medicine, but the success of his first novel, liza of lambeth, published in 1897, won him over to letters.