Collected Short Stories Volume 3《毛姆短篇故事集3》與前兩冊不同，本書選用及時次世界大戰為寫作題材，以毛姆的親身經歷再加上機智巧妙的故事情節安排，仿佛毛姆正在向我們娓娓道來那年那月那日……
The third volume of Somerset Maugham's Collected Short Stories contains the celebrated series about a secret service agent in World War I. Accountable only to 'R', the spy Ashenden travels all over the Continent on assignments which entangle him with such characters as the traitor Grantley Caypor, the passionate Guilia Lazzari, and the sinister 'hairless Mexican'.
Collected Short Stories Volume 3《毛姆短篇故事集3》本書收錄作者以世界大戰為背景創作的精選短篇小說7篇。只要翻開書頁，馬上就會進入另一個世界，那些巧妙的故事，懸疑的情節足以讓讀者欲罷不能。適合英語專業學生學習及研讀，以及想要提高英語閱讀水平的英語學習者。
推薦理由：
1.毛姆被譽為“英國的莫泊桑”，是二十世紀一位會講故事的作家；
2.作品被翻譯成幾乎所有已知文字，交游廣闊，足跡遍及大半個地球；
3.作品結構嚴謹，起承轉落自然，語言簡潔，敘述娓娓動聽；
4.英文原版無刪減，有助于提高文學素養和英文水平。
Collected Short Stories Volume 3 is a collection of Somerset Maugham’s 7 famous short stories, such as “Miss King”, “The Hairless Mexican”, “Giulia Lazzari”, and so on.
The most persuasive espionage fiction. —New York Times
威廉 薩默塞特 毛姆，英國小說家、戲劇家。生于律師家庭。父母早死，由伯父接回英國撫養。原來學醫，后轉而致力寫作。他的作品常以冷靜、客觀乃至挑剔的態度審視人生，基調超然，帶諷刺和憐憫意味，在國內外擁有大量讀者。著名的有戲劇《圈子》長篇小說《人生的枷鎖》《月亮和六便士》，短篇小說集《葉的震顫》《卡蘇里那樹》《阿金》等。
William Somerset Maugham was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest-paid author during the 1930s. The success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, published in 1897, won him over to literature. Of Human Bondage, the first of his masterpieces, came out in 1915, and with the publication in 1919 of The Moon and Sixpence his reputation as a novelist was established. At the same time his fame as a successful playwright and writer was being consolidated with acclaimed productions of various plays and the publication of several short story collections. His other works include travel books, essays, criticism and the autobiographical The Summing Up and A Writer's Notebook.
Preface
Miss King
The Hairless Mexican
Giulia Lazzari
The Traitor
His Excellency
Mr Harrington’s washing
Sanatorium
It was not till the beginning of September that Ashenden, a writer by profession, who had been abroad at the outbreak of the war, managed to get back to England. He chanced soon after his arrival to go to a party and was there introduced to a middle-aged colonel whose name he did not leave, this officer came up to him and asked:
“I say, I wonder if you’d mind coming to see me. I’d rather like to have a chat with you.”
“Certainly,” said Ashenden. “Whenever you like.”
“What about tomorrow at eleven?”
“All right.”
“I’ll just write down my address. Have you a card on you?”
