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Title: A Friend in Need

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Title: A Friend in Need Title Record # 1187689
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
Date: 1925-04-00
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: short story
Language: English
Note: First published in Hearst's International & Cosmoploitan, April 1925, as " The Man Who Wouldn't Hurt a Fly."
Synopsis: "This story is about a man who has had bad luck at cards. He doesn't have any money and he is in a bad condition because has been drinking a lot. He comes to his successful and prosperous friend and asks him for a job. But he has no skills except swimming. The friend agrees to give him a job on condition that he swim around the beacon, which he knows is impossible to do in such a bad condition. The young man has nothing to do but agree. He drowns but his friend doesn't express any regret. It turns out that he just doesn't have a vacancy in his office." (Angelina Kulagina)
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1925 A Friend in Need [as by Somerset Maugham]
1925First published in Hearst's International & Comopolitan, April 1925.
The Man Who Wouldn't Hurt a Fly

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Cosmopolitan, April 1925 1925-04-00 ed. Editors of Cosmopolitan        
unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.
mag  
Shocking Tales 1946-00-00 ed. Robert K. Brunner Current Books / A. A. Wyn  
$2.95?$: US dollar
viii+
323
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Devils & Demons: A Treasury of Fiendish Tales Old & New 1987-09-00 ed. Marvin Kaye, Saralee Kaye Doubleday / SFBC 10336
$6.98?$: US dollar
xv+
587
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Edward Gorey Checkmark
Devils & Demons: A Treasury of Fiendish Tales Old & New 1987-09-16 ed. Marvin Kaye, Saralee Kaye Doubleday 0-385-18563-4
$15.95?$: US dollar
xv+
587
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Edward Gorey  
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