text: One story by this author has the moral that "if your godfathers and godmothers at your baptism give you a pretty name, you will probably marry the most beautiful woman in the world and live happily ever afterwards."
full_question: One story by this author has the moral that "if your godfathers and godmothers at your baptism give you a pretty name, you will probably marry the most beautiful woman in the world and live happily ever afterwards." In another story by this author, Millicent's family calls her "most selfish" for burdening them with the secret of how she killed her husband with a Malay sword. In addition to "The Choice of Amyntas" and "Before the Party," this author wrote a story in which Lawson drowns himself in "The Pool" following years of marriage to a Samoan girl, and also penned a detective story called "Footprints in the Jungle." A set of linked stories by this author follows the title spy as he works for R. and encounters nefarious characters like the "hairless Mexican." For 10 points, name this author who fictionalized his experience in British intelligence in the collection Ashenden and also wrote about Davidson's attempt to rescue Sadie Thompson from prostitution in the story "Rain."
first_sentence: One story by this author has the moral that "if your godfathers and godmothers at your baptism give you a pretty name, you will probably marry the most beautiful woman in the world and live happily ever afterwards."
raw_answer: W. Somerset Maugham [or William Somerset Maugham]