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FIRST PERSON, SINGULAR, A Collection of Six Stories by Somerset Maugham

First Person Singular (1931) by W. Somerset Maugham is a masterclass in human observation—six tales told with the intimacy of confession and the precision of a surgeon’s scalpel. Each story unfolds through the author’s unmistakable voice, at once detached and deeply humane, revealing lives poised between irony and despair, chance and choice. From the drawing rooms of the idle rich to the sun-scorched verandas of the colonies, Maugham strips away the polite fictions of civilization to expose the raw motives beneath. Whether chronicling the follies of love, the quiet corruption of ambition, or the strange bargains people make with fate, these narratives shimmer with his trademark blend of wit, melancholy, and moral clarity. In First Person Singular, Maugham reminds us that the storyteller’s most revealing subject is often himself. Six Classics: VIRTUE THE ROUND DOZEN THE HUMAN ELEMENT JANE THE ALIEN CORN THE CREATIVE IMPULSE