Vol. 2, Issue 9, Part B (2016)

Abstract
William Somerset Maugham enjoys a prominent place among the great short-story writers of the Twentieth Century. One of his admirers described him “as the greatest” short-story writer. He became famous as short story writer with the ‘Trembling of a Leaf’ after which he published more than ten collections. He followed a particular plan when he arranged his short stories in four volumes. He grouped the stories according to their locale. The short stories having a particular country or region as their background are all grouped together.