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Page 152
... distaste for the theatre was not that directors were sometimes incompetent , but
that they were necessary at all . And now the audience . It must seem ungracious
that I should express anything but gratitude to the public that has given me ...
... distaste for the theatre was not that directors were sometimes incompetent , but
that they were necessary at all . And now the audience . It must seem ungracious
that I should express anything but gratitude to the public that has given me ...
Page 183
How difficult it is for him then to move freely still in the circles with which he has
been familiar and which have given him his subjects ! His success has changed
him in the eyes of his old associates and they are no longer at home with him .
How difficult it is for him then to move freely still in the circles with which he has
been familiar and which have given him his subjects ! His success has changed
him in the eyes of his old associates and they are no longer at home with him .
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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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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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