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X I do not know whether it was a subconscious feeling that this sort of writing was contrary to my bent or a naturally methodical cast of mind that led me then to turn my attention to the writers of the Augustan Period .
X I do not know whether it was a subconscious feeling that this sort of writing was contrary to my bent or a naturally methodical cast of mind that led me then to turn my attention to the writers of the Augustan Period .
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I asked myself 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 successful , was one in ...
I asked myself 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 successful , was one in ...
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His mind was restless . He was like an architect who , when you want a house to live in , having persuaded you to build it of brick , then sets before you good reasons why it should be built of stone ; but when you have agreed to this ...
His mind was restless . He was like an architect who , when you want a house to live in , having persuaded you to build it of brick , then sets before you good reasons why it should be built of stone ; but when you have agreed to this ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | Literary Guild of America, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 26 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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