Attention! The book is not scanned, but collected from electronic publications! Elegant, witty stories and anecdotes. The heroes are the inhabitants of the high society of London of the “Joy Twenties”, with all their strengths and weaknesses, petty whims and big quirks. Fashionable beauties and salon hostesses, literary lions and lionesses, playmakers, “noble gentlemen” - the list of characters goes on. However, Maugham takes pleasure in tearing off the mask of external respectability from each of them, and does this with his characteristic evil and apt humor.