Pan Books-William Heinemann

The Summing Up William Somerset Maugham was bora in 1874 and lived in Paris until he was ten. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University. He spent somé time at St Thomas's Hospitál with the idea of practising medicine, but the success of his first növel, Liza...

CHAPTER 1 Some men of noble stock were made, some glory in the miarder blade. Some praise a Science or an Art, but I like honourable Trade! JAMES ELROY FLECKER I CAME into aviation the hard way. I was never in the RAF, and my parents hadn't got fifteen htmdred pounds to spend on pilot...

Author*s preface It was as a short story, and not a very long one either, that I first thought of this növel. Here is the note I made when it occurred to me: 'I am asked to write my reminiscences of a famous novelist, a friend of my boyhood, living at W. with a common wife, very unfaithful to him....

INTRODUCTIONA Maturing NationA mericans are quick to believe that everything familiar about their lives is subject to constant change. Restless movement is their guiding image. America belongs to the New World, which, after all, is always being completed but never finished. This is a young country,...

Landfall The meandering track that ran around the wide curve of Falmouth Bay was just wide enough to allow passage to horse and rider, and only slightly less dangerous than the footpath which was somewhere beneath it. To the stranger or the foolhardy either could be hazardous. On this...