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1 It was a small German hotel , of the second class , spotlessly clean , and his
bedroom had a nice view ; it was furnished with brightly varnished pitch - pine ,
and though on a cold wet day it would have been wretched , in that warm and
sunny ...
1 It was a small German hotel , of the second class , spotlessly clean , and his
bedroom had a nice view ; it was furnished with brightly varnished pitch - pine ,
and though on a cold wet day it would have been wretched , in that warm and
sunny ...
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told him that he was looking for someone to give him conversation - lessons in
German so that he might rub up his rusty knowledge of the language ; and as he
spoke a notion flashed across his mind : he gave Caypor a look and saw that the
...
told him that he was looking for someone to give him conversation - lessons in
German so that he might rub up his rusty knowledge of the language ; and as he
spoke a notion flashed across his mind : he gave Caypor a look and saw that the
...
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German she loathed England with a virulent hatreà because in that country she
saw the chief obstacle to their diffusion . Her ideal was a German world in which
the rest of the nations under a hegemony greater than that of Rome should enjoy
...
German she loathed England with a virulent hatreà because in that country she
saw the chief obstacle to their diffusion . Her ideal was a German world in which
the rest of the nations under a hegemony greater than that of Rome should enjoy
...
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User Review - lamour - LibraryThingThis is volume three of Maugham's collected short stories. In this volume he has put his stories that have the same protagonist, Ashendan who is recruited to move to Switzerland where he will be a ... Read full review
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User Review - jimgysin - LibraryThingIt's easy to see why this one is considered an archetype of espionage fiction. The fact that the book was first published back in the late 1920s means that some of the dialogue and narrative will ... Read full review
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Ashenden: Or: The British Agent The Collected edition of the works of W. Somerset Maugham Works, William Somerset Maugham |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | World Publishing Company, 1947 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 19 Feb 2009 |
| Length | 304 pages |
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