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The Casuarina Tree
''The Casuarina Tree'' is a collection of short stories set in 1920s Malaya by W. Somerset Maugham that came out of travels he paid for by working for the British Secret Service〔("His collections of short stories entitled South Sea Stories and Casuarina Tree are directly attributed to travels afforded by his intelligence (work)". )〕 as a spy. It was first published by the UK publishing house, Heinemann, in 1926.
==Explanation of the title==
The Casuarina tree of the title is native to Australasia and Southeast Asia, often used to stabilise soils.〔(Casuarina Uses )〕 In Maugham's foreword, he says the title was a metaphor for "the English people who live in the Malay Peninsula and in Borneo because they came along after the adventurous pioneers who opened the country to Western civilisation." He likens the pioneers to mangroves reclaiming a swamp, and the expatriates to Casuarinas, who came later and served there. He then learned that his idea was incorrect botanically but decided it would suggest the planters and administrators who for him, were in their turn the organisers and "protectors" of society.〔''The Casuarina Tree'', W. Somerset Maugham, Heinemann (1966), Introduction p viii〕 The book and the author are true to their times but express views and language that are considered politically incorrect today.
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