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Page 151
... story - teller , effective at his best - by which , of course , every writer has the right to be judged but without much real relation to life . His better known stories interest you while you read them , but they are artificial so that ...
... story - teller , effective at his best - by which , of course , every writer has the right to be judged but without much real relation to life . His better known stories interest you while you read them , but they are artificial so that ...
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... story of an unhappily - married man who falls in love with a girl , and hearing that his wife is dead proposes to her . His wife turns up and the lovers separate . On the Eve is the story of a girl who falls in love with a young ...
... story of an unhappily - married man who falls in love with a girl , and hearing that his wife is dead proposes to her . His wife turns up and the lovers separate . On the Eve is the story of a girl who falls in love with a young ...
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... stories will find their way into anthologies for a good many years to come if only because some of them deal with ... story of Machiavelli's stay with Cesare Borgia in the Romagna , which gave him the best of his material for The ...
... stories will find their way into anthologies for a good many years to come if only because some of them deal with ... story of Machiavelli's stay with Cesare Borgia in the Romagna , which gave him the best of his material for The ...
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