Been listening to the well performed youtube audiobooks of #ShortStories that are collected in #WSomersetMaugham's #TheCasuarinaTree (1926).

Four stories listened to so far, not quite in order, and it looks clear that the violence of, and corrosive effects of, #Colonialism was common knowledge in Britain.

Before the Party
P. & O.
The Outstation
The Force of Circumstance
The Yellow Streak
The Letter

A novel #TheHouseOfDoors and #TheLetter are both based on a real event.

Spoilers alert

Impressed by the novel A House of Doors.

Somerset W. Maugham is a character in it called Willie. And it features a real-world collection of short stories by Maugham called The Casuarina Tree. They're about the white colonialists who served the British Empire in Malaysia.

The stories in it are each on Youtube.
The first two have featured very tense interpersonal relationships and murder.

#TheCasuarinaTree #ShortStory #SomersetMaugham #AHouseOfDoors #Novel #Literature