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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 conceived in the ... The first story I wrote now was called
Rain and it looked for a while as though I should have no better luck with it than ...
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 conceived in the ... The first story I wrote now was called
Rain and it looked for a while as though I should have no better luck with it than ...
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The literary world somewhat lacks balance , and when a fancy takes it , is apt to
regard it not as a passing fashion , but as Heaven's first law ; and the notion
prevailed that anyone who had artistic leanings and wanted to write short stories
must ...
The literary world somewhat lacks balance , and when a fancy takes it , is apt to
regard it not as a passing fashion , but as Heaven's first law ; and the notion
prevailed that anyone who had artistic leanings and wanted to write short stories
must ...
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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 read a good many books ...
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 read a good many books ...
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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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