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| General Editor's Preface | p. v |
| Acknowledgments | p. xvii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Note on the Selection and Its Arrangement | p. 19 |
| Liza of Lambeth | p. 21 |
| Unsigned Review, Academy | p. 23 |
| The Making of a Saint | p. 26 |
| Unsigned Review, Academy | p. 27 |
| Orientations | p. 29 |
| Unsigned Review, Academy | p. 30 |
| Mrs Craddock | p. 32 |
| The Merry-Go-Round | p. 37 |
| Unsigned Review, Athenaeum | p. 38 |
| The Land of the Blessed Virgin | p. 39 |
| [virginia Woolf], Unsigned Review, 'Journeys in Spain', Times Literary Supplement | p. 41 |
| The Bishop's Apron | p. 42 |
| The Magician | p. 44 |
| Unsigned Review, 'A Feast of Horrors', New York Times | p. 57 |
| A Man of Honour | p. 59 |
| Max Beerbohm, 'An Uncommercial Play', Saturday Review (london) | p. 63 |
| Lady Frederick | p. 68 |
| Jack Straw | p. 73 |
| Max Beerbohm, Review, Saturday Review (london) | p. 76 |
| Mrs Dot | p. 79 |
| Review, Sunday Times | p. 80 |
| The Explorer | p. 83 |
| 'how Dare He?' Saturday Review (london) | p. 86 |
| Penelope | p. 90 |
| Smith | p. 97 |
| Unsigned Review, Athenaeum | p. 101 |
| The Tenth Man | p. 103 |
| Grace (landed Gentry) | p. 105 |
| Loaves and Fishes | p. 108 |
| Review, Punch | p. 111 |
| The Land of Promise | p. 113 |
| 'Pygmalion (at Home and Abroad)', English Review | p. 118 |
| Of Human Bondage | p. 123 |
| Review, New Statesman | p. 126 |
| Unsigned Review, Athenaeum | p. 129 |
| 'After Ten Years of Of Human Bondage', New York Times | p. 135 |
| The Moon and Sixpence | p. 139 |
| 'in Vishnu-Land What Avatar?' Dial | p. 144 |
| The Trembling of a Leaf | p. 148 |
| Unsigned Review, Saturday Review (london) | p. 151 |
| On a Chinese Screen | p. 155 |
| The Painted Veil | p. 160 |
| Unsigned Review, Times Literary Supplement | p. 167 |
| The Casuarina Tree | p. 168 |
| Review, Nation and Athenaeum | p. 170 |
| 'In the Shadow of the Casuarina Tree', New York Evening Post | p. 171 |
| Ashenden | p. 175 |
| 'Four Contemporary Books', Vogue | p. 176 |
| Unsigned Review, 'Mr Maugham's Latest', New York Times | p. 178 |
| The Gentleman in the Parlour | p. 180 |
| 'Rare Traveler', New York Herald Tribune | p. 182 |
| 'Travelling with Composure', Saturday Review of Literature (new York) | p. 183 |
| Cakes and Ale | p. 185 |
| 'The Books You Read', Graphic | p. 187 |
| Six Stories Written in the First Person Singular | p. 192 |
| The Narrow Corner | p. 198 |
| 'A Cynical, Gifted Story Teller', New York Herald Tribune | p. 201 |
| Ah King | p. 203 |
| Caroline (the Unattainable) | p. 207 |
| Our Betters | p. 210 |
| Review, New Statesman | p. 213 |
| Caesar's Wife | p. 219 |
| Review, Weekly Review (new York) | p. 221 |
| Home and Beauty (too Many Husbands) | p. 222 |
| The Unknown | p. 227 |
| Review, Nation (london) | p. 230 |
| The Circle | p. 233 |
| Review, London Mercury | p. 236 |
| East of Suez | p. 238 |
| Review, New Statesman | p. 242 |
| The Constant Wife | p. 245 |
| The Letter | p. 250 |
| 'Here Are Tigers', Saturday Review (london) | p. 252 |
| The Sacred Flame | p. 255 |
| 'Three Leading Ladies', Illustrated London News | p. 257 |
| The Breadwinner | p. 259 |
| 'A Letter from England', Saturday Review of Literature (new York) | p. 264 |
| For Services Rendered | p. 268 |
| 'Two Gifted Pessimists', Illustrated London News | p. 270 |
| Sheppey | p. 273 |
| 'Somerset Maugham's New Play', Illustrated London News | p. 277 |
| 'Re-Reading Mr Maugham', New Statesman and Nation | p. 283 |
| 'Maugham's Short Stories', Spectator | p. 287 |
| Don Fernando | p. 290 |
| Cosmopolitans | p. 301 |
| Theatre | p. 305 |
| 'A Straight Novel', New Statesman and Nation | p. 307 |
| The Summing Up | p. 311 |
| 'Maugham's Pattern', Spectator | p. 316 |
| 'A Self-Taught Trade', Saturday Review of Literature (new York) | p. 318 |
| Christmas Holiday | p. 328 |
| 'Five-Day Adventure', Saturday Review of Literature (new York) | p. 331 |
| Books and You | p. 333 |
| The Mixture as Before | p. 336 |
| 'Midsummer Nights' Fare', New York Herald Tribune | p. 341 |
| Up at the Villa | p. 343 |
| The Hour Before the Dawn | p. 348 |
| the Art of Somerset Maugham', Saturday Review of Literature (new York) | p. 349 |
| The Razor's Edge | p. 352 |
| Review, Nation (new York) | p. 355 |
| Review, Spectator | p. 356 |
| the Art of Being Good', New Statesman and Nation | p. 358 |
| Then and Now | p. 362 |
| 'Somerset Maugham and an Antidote', New Yorker | p. 364 |
| Creatures of Circumstance | p. 370 |
| 'Mr Maugham, Still Urbane', New York Times | p. 371 |
| Catalina | p. 374 |
| Review, New York Times | p. 375 |
| A Writer's Notebook | p. 385 |
| Review, New Statesman and Nation | p. 389 |
| The Vagrant Mood | p. 404 |
| the Maugham Seesaw', New York Times | p. 408 |
| Points of View | p. 411 |
| 'Mr Maugham's Valedictory', New York Herald Tribune | p. 413 |
| General Studies | p. 415 |
| on the Modern Short Story | p. 421 |
| Unsigned Leading Article, 'Maugham at 80', New York Times | p. 434 |
| on the Eastern Stories | p. 444 |
| 'Summing Up Somerset Maugham at 90', New York Times | p. 446 |
| Select Bibliography | p. 455 |
| Index | p. 457 |
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