Elegant, witty anecdotes. Their heroes are true English ladies and gentlemen with all their strengths and weaknesses, little whims and big quirks. Fashionable beauties and salon hostesses, lions and lionesses of art, playmakers, “noble adventurers” - the list of characters goes on. They travel, find themselves in ridiculous circumstances, make funny mistakes and get involved in funny nonsense. And Somerset Maugham, with his characteristic evil and precise humor, invariably acts as a chronicler of their adventures and misadventures...