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William Somerset Maugham. I had written a novel on the same themes when ,
after taking my medical degrees , I went to Seville . Luckily for me Fisher Unwin
refused to give me the hundred pounds I wanted for it and no other publisher
would ...
William Somerset Maugham. I had written a novel on the same themes when ,
after taking my medical degrees , I went to Seville . Luckily for me Fisher Unwin
refused to give me the hundred pounds I wanted for it and no other publisher
would ...
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This is a very great novel , but it is generally acknowledged that the end is
unsatisfactory . The reason is not hard to find . Stendhal got the idea for it from an
incident that at the time made a great stir : a young seminarist killed his mistress ,
was ...
This is a very great novel , but it is generally acknowledged that the end is
unsatisfactory . The reason is not hard to find . Stendhal got the idea for it from an
incident that at the time made a great stir : a young seminarist killed his mistress ,
was ...
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They have thought that they were learning something when they read novels in
which the characters delivered their views ... The novel was regarded as a
convenient pulpit for the dissemination of ideas and a good many novelists were
willing ...
They have thought that they were learning something when they read novels in
which the characters delivered their views ... The novel was regarded as a
convenient pulpit for the dissemination of ideas and a good many novelists were
willing ...
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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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