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paper , and it was not till four years after I had made my notes for it that I wrote the first of the stories I had ... The first story I wrote now was called Rain and it looked for a while as though I should have no better luck with it ...
paper , and it was not till four years after I had made my notes for it that I wrote the first of the stories I had ... The first story I wrote now was called Rain and it looked for a while as though I should have no better luck with it ...
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Chekhov was a very good short story writer , but he had his limitations and he very wisely made them the basis of his art . He had no gift for devising a compact , dramatic story , such a story as you could tell with effect over the ...
Chekhov was a very good short story writer , but he had his limitations and he very wisely made them the basis of his art . He had no gift for devising a compact , dramatic story , such a story as you could tell with effect over the ...
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I wanted to write stories that proceeded , tightly knit , in an unbroken line from the exposition to the conclusion . I saw the short story as a narrative of a single event , material or spiritual , to which by the elimination of ...
I wanted to write stories that proceeded , tightly knit , in an unbroken line from the exposition to the conclusion . I saw the short story as a narrative of a single event , material or spiritual , to which by the elimination of ...
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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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