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The game played now was contract , with which he was not very familiar , and the
stakes were high ; but the game was obviously but a pretext and Ashenden had
no notion what other game was being played under the rose . It might be that ...
The game played now was contract , with which he was not very familiar , and the
stakes were high ; but the game was obviously but a pretext and Ashenden had
no notion what other game was being played under the rose . It might be that ...
Page 165
He had no notion that anything was known of him . His letters , and he received a
good many , were closely censored ; there were few codes that the people who
dealt with such matters could not in the end decipher and it might be that sooner
...
He had no notion that anything was known of him . His letters , and he received a
good many , were closely censored ; there were few codes that the people who
dealt with such matters could not in the end decipher and it might be that sooner
...
Page 224
... with plenty of money ; he saw the appraising glance she gave him and then ,
pretending that he had noticed nothing , he caught the phrase , il n'est pas mal . It
faintly amused him : he had a notion himself that he was not so bad . There were
...
... with plenty of money ; he saw the appraising glance she gave him and then ,
pretending that he had noticed nothing , he caught the phrase , il n'est pas mal . It
faintly amused him : he had a notion himself that he was not so bad . There were
...
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User Review - kristykay22 - LibraryThingThis is a compelling, although rather chilly, collection of loosely connected short stories following the intelligence work of Ashenden, a writer turned spy for the British government during World War ... Read full review
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User Review - lamour - LibraryThingThis is volume three of Maugham's collected short stories. In this volume he has placed 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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Bibliographic information
| 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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