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The drama pictures the manners and customs of the day , and in its turn affects them , and as these change minor changes follow both in the trappings of a play and in its themes . The invention of the telephone , for instance , has made ...
The drama pictures the manners and customs of the day , and in its turn affects them , and as these change minor changes follow both in the trappings of a play and in its themes . The invention of the telephone , for instance , has made ...
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I cannot but think that he was a better master to follow than the English novelists who at that time influenced the young . In Liza of Lambeth I described without addition or exaggeration the people I had met in [ 163 ] THE SUMMING UP.
I cannot but think that he was a better master to follow than the English novelists who at that time influenced the young . In Liza of Lambeth I described without addition or exaggeration the people I had met in [ 163 ] THE SUMMING UP.
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The free man had no reason to follow them except in so far as they suited his con- venience . Having then an epigrammatic turn , and epigrams being the fashion , I put my conviction into a phrase and said to myself : follow your ...
The free man had no reason to follow them except in so far as they suited his con- venience . Having then an epigrammatic turn , and epigrams being the fashion , I put my conviction into a phrase and said to myself : follow your ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | W. Heinemann, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0434456101, 9780434456109 |
| Length | 317 pages |
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