Ah King
Subtitle: And Other Famous Storied of Love and Hate in the Tropics
By: by W. Somerset Maugham.
Publisher: Berkley Publications
Published: 1958
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 221
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Ah King is a striking collection of Maugham's finest stories about life and love in the lush tropics he knows so well:
Neil MacAdam -- A native young man fights seduction at the hands of the voluptuous wife of his best friend...
Footprints in the Jungle -- The Cartwrights were a charming couple.  Only Inspector Gaze knew that their marriage was founded on adultery and murder...
The Book-Bag -- Tim Hardy and his sister have a strange sexual relationship on a remote rubber plantation.  His marriage to another girl brings a tragic climax that shatters three lives...
The Vessel of Wrath -- Ginger Ted was a brawling, wenching beachcomber.  Only the missionary's spinster sister could hope to tame him...
Notes: Berkley #BG-149.
Cover art by Robert Maguire.