The Casuarina Tree Author:W. Somerset Maugham 1926. Maugham, English novelist, short-story writer, and playwright is best remembered for his novel Of Human Bondage. The Casuarina Tree contains six stories by Maugham including: Before the Party; P. and O.; The Outstation; The Force of Circumstance; The Yellow Streak; and The Letter. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Pu... more »blishing.« less