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Page 105
The management despondently smoke gaspers , the wives and mothers of the
cast talk to one another in undertones and the author's agent reads the racing
news in the evening paper . It is all unreal and exciting . At last the dressmakers
filter ...
The management despondently smoke gaspers , the wives and mothers of the
cast talk to one another in undertones and the author's agent reads the racing
news in the evening paper . It is all unreal and exciting . At last the dressmakers
filter ...
Page 115
They complained that there was not enough action and Miss Mary Moore , then a
popular actress , suggested that I should insert a burglary to make it more
exciting . I began to think that I should never be able to write a piece that a
leading lady ...
They complained that there was not enough action and Miss Mary Moore , then a
popular actress , suggested that I should insert a burglary to make it more
exciting . I began to think that I should never be able to write a piece that a
leading lady ...
Page 243
The feat is exciting enough to make it worth his while to risk a tumble . I was much
disconcerted by the claim that I found here and there advanced that philosophy
was the province of the higher mathematicians ; and though it seemed hard to ...
The feat is exciting enough to make it worth his while to risk a tumble . I was much
disconcerted by the claim that I found here and there advanced that philosophy
was the province of the higher mathematicians ; and though it seemed hard to ...
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Bibliographic information
| 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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