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"Rain" is a short story by the British writer W. Somerset Maugham. It was originally published as " Miss Thompson " in the April 1921 issue of the American literary magazine The Smart Set , [ 1 ] and was included in the collection of stories by Maugham The Trembling of a Leaf .
The short story collections of W. Somerset Maugham Title [8] [48] Year of first publication First edition publisher (London, unless otherwise stated) Notes Ref. East and West: 1934: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Garden City, NY [49] Altogether: 1934: Heinemann [50] Favourite Short Stories: 1937: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Garden City, NY [51] The Round ...
The biggest theatrical success of Maugham's career was an adaptation by others [n 14] of his short story "Rain", which opened on Broadway in 1921 and ran for 648 performances. [89] The majority of his original plays were comedies, but of his serious dramas East of Suez (1922), The Letter (1927) and The Sacred Flame (1929) ran for more than 200 ...
The film is based on W. Somerset Maugham's 1921 short story "Miss Thompson" (later retitled "Rain"). Other film versions include Sadie Thompson (1928) starring Gloria Swanson , Rain (1932) starring Joan Crawford , and Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A. (1946).
The playwright, novelist and short-story writer W. Somerset Maugham, was a prolific author from the late 19th century until the 1960s. Most of his earliest successes were for the theatre, but he gave up writing plays after 1932.
In 1916–1917 Maugham and his secretary-companion Gerald Haxton travelled in the Pacific, and the stories in this collection are among the writings produced as a result. . During the voyage, the ship had to pause at Pago-Pago for a quarantine inspection, and some fellow-passengers who lodged on the island became models for Maugham's story "Rain"; he also met there a young American sailor who ...
Creatures of Circumstance is a collection of 15 short stories by the British writer W. Somerset Maugham, first published by William Heinemann in 1947. [1] It was the last collection of stories prepared by the writer.
Somerset Maugham TV Theatre (originally known as Teller of Tales for the first three episodes) is an American anthology drama program. [1] The series aired on CBS October 18, 1950 – March 28, 1951, and on NBC April 2, 1951 – December 10, 1951.