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Saturday, March 22, 2025

There's only one thing better than reading a book ...

0:05 Raw Material [text]
8:58 Mayhew [text]
18:13 German Harry [text]
28:10 The Happy Man [text]
38:26 The Dream [text]
50:25 In a Strange Land [text]
1:01:37 The Luncheon [text]
1:12:40 Salvatore [text]
1:24:55 Home [text]
1:36:58 Mr. Know-All [text]
1:53:23 The Escape [text]
2:03:30 A Friend in Need [text]
2:15:11 The Portrait of a Gentleman [text]
2:31:10 The End of the Flight [text]

 

There's only one thing better than reading a book, and that is having it read to me (in a nice voice) - and if that book is by W. Somerset Maugham, but especially one of the three volumes of his short stories, then I'm all ears.

 

00:01 01. The Ant and the Grasshopper [text]
11:01 02. French Joe [text]
23:35 03. The Man with the Scar [text]
32:59 04. The Poet [text]
46:04 05. Louise [text]
01:03:13 06. The Closed Shop [text]
01:25:54 07. The Promise [text]
01:43:04 08. A String of Beads [text]
01:57:08 09. The Bum [text]
02:18:17 10. Straight Flush [text]
02:33:43 11. The Verger [text]
02:52:58 12. The Wash Tub [text]
03:11:44 13. The Social Sense [text]
03:31:32 14. The Four Dutchmen [text]

 

Call me biased but my favourite stories are "German Harry" and "French Joe", which take me right back to the Torres Strait where I had spent an enjoyable few months in 1977. As for all the other short stories, you can read them in Volume I, Volume II, and Volume III.


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