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*[http://thedandelions.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/has-somerset-maugham-promoted-malaysia-more-than-shahrukh-khan/ Has Somerset Maugham promoted Malaysia more than Shahrukh Khan?] by Oscar the Grouch. The short stories by W. Somerset Maugham set in Malaysia and Borneo, written during the 1920s and 1930s, were typically concerned with the lives of the British imperial colonist. Includes details of a murder in 1911 in Malaya on which one of the stories is thought to be based.
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20130114152847/http://www.maleisie.be/en/literature_william_somerset_maugham.html A list of the short stories by W. Somerset Maugham set in Malaysia and Borneo] www.maleisie.be, now an archived webpage.:See Historical books online, below.
*[http://www.historytoday.com/dunia-garcia-ontiveros/treasures-london-library-phrasebooks-and-shipwrecks Treasures from the London Library] Describes the book ''The Planter’s Manual, an English, Dutch, Malay and Keh Chinese vocabulary'' by G Fraser Melbourn published Deli Sumatra 1894. Also available at the [[British Library]]. The author was a tobacco planter.
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acheh Acheh] (Wikipedia)is a special region of Indonesia, located on the northern tip of the island of Sumatra . Under the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824 the British ceded their colonial possessions on Sumatra to the Dutch. In the treaty, the British described Aceh as one of their possessions, although they had no actual control over the Sultanate
*[http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/35900 ''French View of the Netherlands Indies''] by G.H. Bousquet ; translated from the French by Philip E. Lilienthal 1940. Pdf download, Digital Repository of GIPE, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune
*''Netherlands East Indies'' by Naval Intelligence Division 1944. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.70084 Volume 1], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.70085 Volume 2] Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
*''The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham'' [https://archive.org/details/completeshorts01maug Volume I] Archive.org Lending Library. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.460655 Volume II], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.553314 Volume III]. Archive.org. The Volume III Preface indicates some of the stories are set in Malaya; there may be Borneo stories in any volume. (See External links, above.) [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Short+Stories%29+AND+creator%3A%28Somerset+Maugham%29&sort=-date Other ''Short Stories'' editions] mainly from the Archive.org Lending Library. [https://archive.org/details/fareasterntales00maug ''Far Eastern Tales''] Archive.org Lending Library.
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