Moral assessment:
Type: Literature
Nothing inappropriate.
Some morally inappropriate content.
Contains significant sections contrary to faith or morals.
Contains some lurid passages, or presents a general ideological framework that could confuse those without much Christian formation.
Contains several lurid passages, or presents an ideological framework that is contrary or foreign to Christian values.
Explicitly contradicts Catholic faith or morals, or is directed against the Church and its institutions.
Stories include 'Rain', where a missionary commits suicide after meeting a prostitute, and 'The Alien Com', where an aspiring pianist commits suicide when he was told he would forever be second-rate. William Somerset Maugham was born in 1874 in Paris, and died in 1965. He was orphaned at the age of 10, trained as a doctor and gain most success at writing plays. Many of the stories are set it the tropics and have clever twists.
C.C. (U.K., 2016)