The Trembling of a Leaf de W. Somerset Maugham

Stories of Hawaii and the South Seas including "Red," the author's most successful short story and "Rain," his most notorious one. Author Maugham (1874-1965), was a noted English novelist, playwright and author of masterly short stories, spent several months in the Pacific in 1916 and 1917 during an interlude in his service in British intelligence during World War I. He had wanted to go to the South Seas ever since, as a youth, he had read the tales of Herman Melville, Pierre Loti, and Robert Louis Stevenson. Maugham's keen observation and narrative are at their height in this sheaf of Pacific stories.