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Lady Elizabeth Vermont has had a string of lovers and marriages. Now she has married a man considerably younger than herself. Will this one last?

Lady Elizabeth Vermont has had a string of lovers and marriages. Now she's married a man considerably younger than herself. Will this one last?

Interviewed in 1933, Maugham said, 'It has always seemed to me that literature can only find its fullest and freest expression in the essay or short story.' He wrote more than 100 stories, at least 14 of which he burned on one of his 'bonfire nights', after Winston Churchill warned that they contravened the Official Secrets Act. Of the stories that do survive, he said, 'some of them deal with circumstances and places to which the passage of time and the growth of civilisation will give a romantic glamour.'

A collection of Maugham's best stories with tales from home and abroad. Tales of intrigue from far-flung colonial outposts and tales of passion from quintessentially British hearths.

Maugham writes perfect vignettes - snapshots of human life in all its diversity - captured at a moment of crisis or revelation.

Abridged by Polly Coles
Read by Daniel Weyman
Produced by Clive Brill

A Brill Production for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra.

15 minutes

Last on

Thu 25 Jan 2018 21:00

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  • Thu 25 Jan 2018 11:00
  • Thu 25 Jan 2018 21:00