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The medical profession did not interest me , but it gave me the chance of living in London and so gaining the experience of life that I hankered after . I entered St Thomas's Hospital in the autumn of 1892. I found the first two years ...
The medical profession did not interest me , but it gave me the chance of living in London and so gaining the experience of life that I hankered after . I entered St Thomas's Hospital in the autumn of 1892. I found the first two years ...
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The screen gave that arti- ficiality which verse had once given to drama so that a different standard of verisimilitude was set and improbability was acceptable if only it gave rise to situation . It gave the opportunity for all manner ...
The screen gave that arti- ficiality which verse had once given to drama so that a different standard of verisimilitude was set and improbability was acceptable if only it gave rise to situation . It gave the opportunity for all manner ...
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the writers who seemed to offer something new in technique , and this is very comprehensible , for the novelties they presented gave a sort of freshness to well - worn material and were a fruitful matter of dis- cussion .
the writers who seemed to offer something new in technique , and this is very comprehensible , for the novelties they presented gave a sort of freshness to well - worn material and were a fruitful matter of dis- cussion .
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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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