THE SUMMING UP is rare among literary autobiographies for its scope and honesty. While Maugham analyzes his work in drama and fiction, this is far more than a list of publishing triumphs. He sorts 40 years of experience and gives us the distillation of his ethic and philosophy. Like many other successful authors Maugham started as a physician, but writing called him early. At 23, based on his experiences in a slum hospital, he wrote LIZA OF LAMBETH,...

A collection of Greek and Roman myths from various classical sources arranged in sections on the gods and early heroes, love and adventure stories, heroes before and during the Trojan War, and lesser myths. Includes a brief section on Norse mythology.

"In the two volumes of The blue and the gray Henry Steele Commager has presented the story of the Civil War in the words of those who fought it. He has evoked the collective memory of that whole generation -- the Federals and the Confederates, the officers and the privates, the soldiers and the civilians -- to re-create the war in all its aspects as it appeared to those who participated in it. Here are the generals who planned the campaigns and the...

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Bertrand Russell's Our Knowledge of the External World investigates the problem of perception from an analytic-philosophical perspective. Here the great British mathematician and philosopher gives a thoughtful exposition of his logically motivated epistemology and argues for a controversial solution to a long-standing philosophical riddle. Skilfully written with an...