Stunningly rejacketed as part of a major reinvention of this neglected 20th century master

Maugham teases out buried secrets as mesmerising as the heat and as menacing as the surrounding jungle Observer If all else perish, there will remain a storyteller's world...that is exclusively and forever Maugham, a world of verandah and prahu which we enter as well as we do that of Conan Doyle's Baker Street, and with a happy and eternal homecoming The Times Ideally you should listen to these stories lying in a long cane chair on the veranda of a dark bungalow sipping a gin and bitters - not that Maugham's writing needs any further atmospheric embellishment Guardian