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Many years ago when I was destroying the papers of one of his sons , my uncle ,
who had died , I came across the diary that my grandfather kept when as a young
man at the beginning of the nineteenth century he did what I believe was called ...
Many years ago when I was destroying the papers of one of his sons , my uncle ,
who had died , I came across the diary that my grandfather kept when as a young
man at the beginning of the nineteenth century he did what I believe was called ...
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The book was called The Merry - Go - Round . It was rather absurd because
owing to the influence on me of the ęsthetic school of the nineties I made
everyone incredibly beautiful , and it was written in a tight and affected manner .
But its chief ...
The book was called The Merry - Go - Round . It was rather absurd because
owing to the influence on me of the ęsthetic school of the nineties I made
everyone incredibly beautiful , and it was written in a tight and affected manner .
But its chief ...
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... the public be , it is his no longer and he is free from the burden that oppressed
him . I called my book Beauty from Ashes , which is a quotation from Isaiah , but
finding that this title had been recently used , I chose instead the title of one of the
...
... the public be , it is his no longer and he is free from the burden that oppressed
him . I called my book Beauty from Ashes , which is a quotation from Isaiah , but
finding that this title had been recently used , I chose instead the title of one of the
...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | Doubleday, Doran & Company, Incorporated, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 21 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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