The tales of William Somerset Maugham bring together the main virtues of what was one of the most reputed playwrights and novelists of the United Kingdom in the early twentieth century. In them are the fine gifts of psychological observation by which he praised criticism, a clean and acerbic style as a lucid chronicler of both worldly life and the literary sphere, and an outstanding capacity to synthesize the dilemmas they face their characters. In The Creative Impulse and Other Stories are collected twelve stories in which Maugham explores the complexity of the human condition: the struggle between what one is and what he wants to be, the subtle line that separates reality from sleep, but above all deceitful power of appearances and the dark impulses that hide the actions of the human being. These themes, of a timeless nature, crystallize in a prose with resonances of Maupassant. The reader will delve into perceptive portraits of characters and situations built around an idea of ​​style and clear composition: create small pieces centered on a single plot, whose purpose is to offer a dramatic closed print. Atalanta continues, after the publication of Lluvia and other stories, with the necessary rescue of the brief narrative of a key author of the European Literature.