Collected Short Stories Volume 3《毛姆短篇故事集3》与前两册不同，本书选用及时次世界大战为写作题材，以毛姆的亲身经历再加上机智巧妙的故事情节安排，仿佛毛姆正在向我们娓娓道来那年那月那日……
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》本书收录作者以世界大战为背景创作的精选短篇小说7篇。只要翻开书页，马上就会进入另一个世界，那些巧妙的故事，悬疑的情节足以让读者欲罢不能。适合英语专业学生学习及研读，以及想要提高英语阅读水平的英语学习者。
推荐理由：
1.毛姆被誉为“英国的莫泊桑”，是二十世纪一位会讲故事的作家；
2.作品被翻译成几乎所有已知文字，交游广阔，足迹遍及大半个地球；
3.作品结构严谨，起承转落自然，语言简洁，叙述娓娓动听；
4.英文原版无删减，有助于提高文学素养和英文水平。
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 萨默塞特 毛姆，英国小说家、戏剧家。生于律师家庭。父母早死，由伯父接回英国抚养。原来学医，后转而致力写作。他的作品常以冷静、客观乃至挑剔的态度审视人生，基调超然，带讽刺和怜悯意味，在国内外拥有大量读者。著名的有戏剧《圈子》长篇小说《人生的枷锁》《月亮和六便士》，短篇小说集《叶的震颤》《卡苏里那树》《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?”
