Anthony Curtis Book order (chronological)

Each of the more than 5,000 entries in this useful price guide to antiques gives a brief description of the item and its current market value at auction. Each description is accompanied by a photo showing the piece's distinguishing features.

Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brillant characters - his fiancee Isabel, whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliot Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate American snob. The most ambitious of Maugham's novels, this is also one in which Maugham himself plays a considerable part as he wanders in and out of the story, to observe his characters struggling with their fates.