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Taking it all in all I am bound to conclude that the professor at her college would
not have given me very high marks. The second lesson I had was given me by a
don, both intelligent and charming, who happened to be staying with me when I ...
Taking it all in all I am bound to conclude that the professor at her college would
not have given me very high marks. The second lesson I had was given me by a
don, both intelligent and charming, who happened to be staying with me when I ...
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have nothing much to do with the theme, have given them a peculiar sense of
reality. It is this, however, that has given the French an acute sense of discomfort.
The sermons that Henry James preached to the English on form in the novel ...
have nothing much to do with the theme, have given them a peculiar sense of
reality. It is this, however, that has given the French an acute sense of discomfort.
The sermons that Henry James preached to the English on form in the novel ...
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A bit of lovemaking thrown in here and there made the information they were
given sufficiently palatable. The novel was regarded as a convenient pulpit for
the dissemination of ideas and a good many novelists were willing enough to
look ...
A bit of lovemaking thrown in here and there made the information they were
given sufficiently palatable. The novel was regarded as a convenient pulpit for
the dissemination of ideas and a good many novelists were willing enough to
look ...
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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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