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But its most effective scene , the scene that afterwards made it so success- ful , was one in which the heroine in order to disil- lusion a young lover let him come into her dressing- room and discover her without any make up on her ...
But its most effective scene , the scene that afterwards made it so success- ful , was one in which the heroine in order to disil- lusion a young lover let him come into her dressing- room and discover her without any make up on her ...
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world ; it must be very stubborn if it is not modified by the softening influences of success . Success besides often bears within itself the seed of destruction , for it may very well cut the author off from the material that was its ...
world ; it must be very stubborn if it is not modified by the softening influences of success . Success besides often bears within itself the seed of destruction , for it may very well cut the author off from the material that was its ...
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li When , having achieved success as a dramatist , I determined to devote the rest of my life to play- writing I reckoned without my host . I was happy , I was prosperous , I was busy , my head was full of plays that I wanted to write ...
li When , having achieved success as a dramatist , I determined to devote the rest of my life to play- writing I reckoned without my host . I was happy , I was prosperous , I was busy , my head was full of plays that I wanted to write ...
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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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