Ah King

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Doubleday, Doran, Incorporated, 1933 - Short stories - 306 pages
A collection of short stories set in the Federated Malay States and elsewhere in Southeast Asia during the 1920s.

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Contents

FOOTPRINTS IN THE JUNGLE
5
THE DOOR OF OPPORTUNITY
48
THE VESSEL OF WRATH
94
Copyright

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Ah King
William Somerset Maugham
Snippet view - 1933
Ah King
William Somerset Maugham
Snippet view - 1933
Ah King: Six Stories
William Somerset Maugham
Snippet view - 1953

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Bibliographic information

TitleAh King
Collected editon, [19]
AuthorWilliam Somerset Maugham
PublisherDoubleday, Doran, Incorporated, 1933
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedJun 28, 2006
Length306 pages
  
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