Rain and Other South Sea Stories by W. Somerset Maugham
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
The setting for all these stories, at least for much of each story, is the south pacific. The themes, all tragic, seem to me speak to the overreach and hubris of a British colonial empire that stretched too its antipodes. For the UK, Eden-like islands allured their conquerors and crippled them emotionally and spiritually. Was Maugham an anti-colonialist?
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