Thirty stories bound by autobiographical threads, ranging in subject from a prep school hunger strike in England to sinister happenings in Majorca. Beautifully varied and widely eclectic, these selections cover, among other topics, an heroic protest at prep school ("Treacle Tart"), a con artist who uses the art of escapology in real-life situations, and a man who claims the power to kill with his voice ("The Shout").

          Most of the stories, including such improbable ones as "Kill Them! Kill Them!," "The Whitaker Negroes" and "A Toast to Ava Gardner" are, the author insists, true. Written between 1924 and 1962, each stands on its own; but together, as autobiography, this collection makes a fascinating companion to GOODBYE TO ALL THAT, Robert Graves’ famous account of his life at Charterhouse School and as a young officer in WW I. 

CONTENTS:
ENGLISH STORIES:
1. The Shout
2. Old Papa Johnson
3. Treacle Tart
4. The Full Length
5. Earth to Earth
6. Period Piece
7. Week-End at Cwm Tatws
8. He Went Out to Buy a Rhine
9. Kill Them! Kill Them!
10. The French Thing
11. A Man May Not Marry His…
12. An Appointment for Candlemas
13. The Abominable Mr Gunn
14. Harold Vesey at the Gates of Hell
15. Christmas Truce
16. You Win, Houdini!
ROMAN STORIES
17. Epics Are Out of Fashion
18. The Tenement: A Vision of Imperial Rome
19. The Myconian
MAJORCAN STORIES
20. They Say… They Say
21. 6 Valiant Bulls 6
22. A Bycycle in Majorca
23. The Five Godfathers
24. Evidence of Affluence
25. God Grant Your Honour Many Years
26. The Viscountess and the Short-Haited Girl
27. A Toast to Ava Gardner
28. The Lost Chinese
29. She Landed Yesterday
30. The Whitaker Negroes