Tales of the South Pacific
The Trembling of a Leaf
This famous collection of Maugham's South Sea stories includes "Rain" which was adapted into a play and film script. This collection also includes "The Pool" and "Macintosh," two stories that show some influence from Louis Becke among others, as well as "The Fall of Edward Barnard", "Red", and "Honolulu" plus two vignettes: "The Pacific" and "Envoi."
W. Somerset Maugham
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By Reef and Palm
By Reef and Palm by Louis Becke has influenced many writers of a later era. James Michener has cited Becke for some of the best descriptions of South Sea islands ever penned. A tropical trader himself, Becke knew the infamous "Bully" Hayes and spent his early life as a sailor and trader roaming Oceania before he "settled" into life in Australia and then England to become one of the Commonwealth's most prolific writers by the turn of the century. This volume is his first collection of anecdotal stories about life in the island worlds that he knew so well.
Louis Becke
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The Ebbing of the Tide
Supercargo, trader, beachcomber, and perhaps pirate, Louis Becke knew the South Seas of the late 19th Century like few others. His second book's stories range across the South Seas from the Marshalls to lonely Pitcairn Island on the other. They tell, as he once said, "of those restless wanderers who range the Pacific in search of the fortune they always mean to gain, but which never comes to them, except in some few instances." Not for the faint of heart, but these tales illuminate the desperately cruel clash of colonialism and native tradition.
Louis Becke
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