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a paper , and it was not till four years after I had made my notes for it that I wrote the first of the stories I had ... The first story I wrote now was called Rain and it looked for a while as though I should have no better luck with ...
a paper , and it was not till four years after I had made my notes for it that I wrote the first of the stories I had ... The first story I wrote now was called Rain and it looked for a while as though I should have no better luck with ...
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Chekhov was a very good short story writer , but he had his limitations and he very wisely made them the basis of his art . He had no gift for devising a compact , dramatic story , such a story as you could tell with effect over the ...
Chekhov was a very good short story writer , but he had his limitations and he very wisely made them the basis of his art . He had no gift for devising a compact , dramatic story , such a story as you could tell with effect over the ...
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I have had some sort of story to tell and it has interested me to tell it . To me it has been a sufficient object in itself . It has been my misfortune that for some time now a story has been despised by the intelligent .
I have had some sort of story to tell and it has interested me to tell it . To me it has been a sufficient object in itself . It has been my misfortune that for some time now a story has been despised by the intelligent .
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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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