The Trembling of a Leaf: a Short Story from the South Pacific Islands
by G
About This Novel
"The Trembling of a Leaf" is a collection of single-volume short stories compiled and selected by Maugham himself during his lifetime. It includes six short stories set in the South Pacific islands. The materials are all based on the author's experiences traveling in the Pacific region. In these stories, the exotic scenery of the South Pacific islands is beautiful but dangerous, comfortable and strange, giving the works a magical and charming charm. From governors to servants, from ladies to street prostitutes, these Westerners living in the Far East colonies experienced life experiences and emotional ups and downs that they could not imagine and experience in the comfortable lives in their hometowns, and displayed distinctive and outstanding character traits; their satisfaction, joy, and pursuit of the ideal world, as well as their weakness, hypocrisy, and emptiness, vividly presented Maugham's questioning and thinking about complex human nature.
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