In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid rules the Turkish Empire, but he is faced with the threat of revolt by the Young Turk party. He allows Hilmi Pasha, the leader of…

W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.

A mill-owner’s ambitious daughter almost ruins her husband’s political career.

In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who’s come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she’s married an inkeeper who’s a member of a…