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I asked my- self what sort of part would be likely to appeal to a leading lady , and having made up my mind on this point , wrote Lady Frederick . But its most effective scene , the scene that afterwards made it so success- ful ...
I asked my- self what sort of part would be likely to appeal to a leading lady , and having made up my mind on this point , wrote Lady Frederick . But its most effective scene , the scene that afterwards made it so success- ful ...
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I wrote these four plays in the order in which I expected them to be increasingly unsuccessful . I did not want to destroy my reputation with the public till I was definitely finished with it . The first two surprised me by having a ...
I wrote these four plays in the order in which I expected them to be increasingly unsuccessful . I did not want to destroy my reputation with the public till I was definitely finished with it . The first two surprised me by having a ...
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I wrote two short stories which together , I thought , would make a volume of a size suitable for this collection and sent them to Fisher Unwin . After some time he re- turned them , but with a letter asking me if I had not a novel I ...
I wrote two short stories which together , I thought , would make a volume of a size suitable for this collection and sent them to Fisher Unwin . After some time he re- turned them , but with a letter asking me if I had not a novel I ...
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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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