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Page 73
Love and a dark woman , danger , betrayal and death . It was as plain as the
nose on your face . Any fool would have known what it meant and I have been
using the cards all my life . There is hardly an action that I make without
consulting ...
Love and a dark woman , danger , betrayal and death . It was as plain as the
nose on your face . Any fool would have known what it meant and I have been
using the cards all my life . There is hardly an action that I make without
consulting ...
Page 94
The women were old , painted , and hideous ; and their harsh gaiety was at once
noisy and lifeless . When Ashenden and the Hairless Mexican came in they all
stared and when they sat down at one of the tables Ashenden looked away in ...
The women were old , painted , and hideous ; and their harsh gaiety was at once
noisy and lifeless . When Ashenden and the Hairless Mexican came in they all
stared and when they sat down at one of the tables Ashenden looked away in ...
Page 287
His infatuation had not blinded him to the fact that she was an extremely
intelligent woman . After dinner he told Mr. Harrington that he wished to talk
business with Anastasia Alexandrovna and took her to a retired corner of the
lounge . He told ...
His infatuation had not blinded him to the fact that she was an extremely
intelligent woman . After dinner he told Mr. Harrington that he wished to talk
business with Anastasia Alexandrovna and took her to a retired corner of the
lounge . He told ...
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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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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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