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Staying at Hôtel Lotti , Paris . If possible please go and see her . Raymond .
Raymond was one of R.'s facetious.noms de guerre , and since Ashenden was
not so fortunate as to possess an Aunt Maggie he concluded that this was an
order to ...
Staying at Hôtel Lotti , Paris . If possible please go and see her . Raymond .
Raymond was one of R.'s facetious.noms de guerre , and since Ashenden was
not so fortunate as to possess an Aunt Maggie he concluded that this was an
order to ...
Page 141
I can get an engagement in Paris . I have a friend there who has made me
serious propositions . I have wasted long enough over you and look what I have
got from it . It is finished . Good - bye . You will never find a woman who will love
you as ...
I can get an engagement in Paris . I have a friend there who has made me
serious propositions . I have wasted long enough over you and look what I have
got from it . It is finished . Good - bye . You will never find a woman who will love
you as ...
Page 224
It was pungent of the heated asphalt , the zinc bars of cheap taverns and racy of
the crowded squares in the poorer districts of Paris . There was an energy in
those apt and vivid metaphors that went like champagne to his anæmic head .
It was pungent of the heated asphalt , the zinc bars of cheap taverns and racy of
the crowded squares in the poorer districts of Paris . There was an energy in
those apt and vivid metaphors that went like champagne to his anæmic head .
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User Review - lamour - LibraryThingThis is volume three of Maugham's collected short stories. In this volume he has put his stories that have the same protagonist, Ashendan who is recruited to move to Switzerland where he will be a ... Read full review
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User Review - jimgysin - LibraryThingIt's easy to see why this one is considered an archetype of espionage fiction. The fact that the book was first published back in the late 1920s means that some of the dialogue and narrative will ... Read full review
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| Title | Ashenden: Or, The British Agent Volume 5 of The collected edition of the works of W. Somerset Maugham, 5, William Somerset Maugham |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | Heinemann, 1961 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 1 May 2009 |
| Length | 304 pages |
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