The Kite and Other Stories: Modern English-Language Texts; Volume 71 of The New Windmill Series By W. Somerset Maugham

This is a collection of some of Somerset Maugham's finest stories. The Kite is the subtitle story of a young man's obsessive attachment to kite-flying, the others include a spy story set in Switzerland, a ghost story set in Spain, a character sketch of an Italian fisherman, and a story of a man who on the day he was to be married ran away from the girl who had come six thousand miles to marry him.