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Page 100
My plan was to spend a year there till I had learnt Spanish, then go to Rome
which I knew only as a tripper and perfect my superficial knowledge of Italian,
follow that up with a journey to Greece where I intended to learn the vernacular
as an ...
My plan was to spend a year there till I had learnt Spanish, then go to Rome
which I knew only as a tripper and perfect my superficial knowledge of Italian,
follow that up with a journey to Greece where I intended to learn the vernacular
as an ...
Page 129
The drama pictures the manners and customs of the day, and in its turn affects
them, and as these change minor changes follow both in the trappings of a play
and in its themes. The invention of the telephone, for instance, has made many ...
The drama pictures the manners and customs of the day, and in its turn affects
them, and as these change minor changes follow both in the trappings of a play
and in its themes. The invention of the telephone, for instance, has made many ...
Page 184
It can only give him two good things: one, the more important by far, is the
freedom to follow his own bent, and the other is confidence in himself.
Notwithstanding his pretension and his susceptible vanity the author when he
compares his work ...
It can only give him two good things: one, the more important by far, is the
freedom to follow his own bent, and the other is confidence in himself.
Notwithstanding his pretension and his susceptible vanity the author when he
compares his work ...
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| Title | The Summing Up, Part 354, Volume 1 Armed Services ed Armed Services editions Volume 10 of Collected edition of the works of W. Somerset Maugham Volume 5339 of Collection of British authors International Collector's Library Volume 60 of Mentor books Volume 5339 of Tauchnitz edition of British and American authors Works, William Somerset Maugham |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | Literary Guild of America, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 26 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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