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William Somerset Maugham. Russian writers have been so much the fashion that sober- minded people have greatly exaggerated the merit of certain writers merely because they write in Russian , so that Kuprin , for instance , Korolenko and ...
William Somerset Maugham. Russian writers have been so much the fashion that sober- minded people have greatly exaggerated the merit of certain writers merely because they write in Russian , so that Kuprin , for instance , Korolenko and ...
Page 161
... Russian's personal freedom is much greater than the Englishman's . He is bound by no rules . He eats what he likes at the hours that suit him , he dresses as he chooses without regard to common usage ( the artist will wear a bowler hat ...
... Russian's personal freedom is much greater than the Englishman's . He is bound by no rules . He eats what he likes at the hours that suit him , he dresses as he chooses without regard to common usage ( the artist will wear a bowler hat ...
Page 162
... Russian writers , and it may be supposed that they represent the two sides of Russian character , the two persons whom every Russian feels more or less in himself . And it may be that it is the presence in him of these two ...
... Russian writers , and it may be supposed that they represent the two sides of Russian character , the two persons whom every Russian feels more or less in himself . And it may be that it is the presence in him of these two ...
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