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My impression is that it is written at least more naturally than anything I had written before ; but I am sure that it is often slipshod and I daresay there are in it a good many mistakes in grammar . Since then I have written many ...
My impression is that it is written at least more naturally than anything I had written before ; but I am sure that it is often slipshod and I daresay there are in it a good many mistakes in grammar . Since then I have written many ...
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All the best dramatists have written with their eye on it and though they have more often spoken of it with contempt than with good will they have known that they were dependent on it . It is the public that pays , and if it is not ...
All the best dramatists have written with their eye on it and though they have more often spoken of it with contempt than with good will they have known that they were dependent on it . It is the public that pays , and if it is not ...
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I had not written short stories for many years . I began my literary career by writing them and my third book was a collection of six . They were not good . After that I tried now and then to write stories for the maga- zines ...
I had not written short stories for many years . I began my literary career by writing them and my third book was a collection of six . They were not good . After that I tried now and then to write stories for the maga- zines ...
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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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