Tony Webster has always made the very reasonable assumption that he could trust his memories, but when he's forced to revisit his past, everything he believes about himself and his life is challenged. The fact is that Tony Webster, a middle-aged man, never gave much thought to his past at all until his closest childhood friends' return with a vengeance -- one of them from the grave and another maddeningly present. Tony thought he'd left all this uncertainly...

Lectures delivered as the Mary Flexner Lectures, Bryn Mawr College, fall 1965, under the title: The long perspectives.

A collection of very short, great stories written for Cosmopolitan Magazine between 1924 and 1929. Once again, Maugham proves himself to be a master of the short fiction form in this brilliant collection of 29 stories which, like so much of his other books, are cosmopolitan in nature and these little gems have a Jazz Era setting.

Essays by popular children's authors reveal the books that shaped their personal and literary lives, explaining how the stories they loved influenced them creatively, politically, and intellectually.