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The train waited on and he sang song after song . I could not understand his
words , but through his singing , wild and melancholy , I seemed to hear the cry of
the oppressed : I felt the lonely steppes and the interminable forests ; the flow of
the ...
The train waited on and he sang song after song . I could not understand his
words , but through his singing , wild and melancholy , I seemed to hear the cry of
the oppressed : I felt the lonely steppes and the interminable forests ; the flow of
the ...
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When they neared the station the houses seemed on a sudden to take on a
greyer , more rigid line , and you felt that the dawn was at hand . A little shiver
trembled through the night . It was a moment of apprehension and the soul for an
instant ...
When they neared the station the houses seemed on a sudden to take on a
greyer , more rigid line , and you felt that the dawn was at hand . A little shiver
trembled through the night . It was a moment of apprehension and the soul for an
instant ...
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... live for ever and ever be . hind a mask ; sometimes he felt he couldn't bear it .
But he bore it . Sometimes he longed for Alix so fiercely that he felt it would be
better to shoot himself than to suffer such anguish . He never saw her again .
Never .
... live for ever and ever be . hind a mask ; sometimes he felt he couldn't bear it .
But he bore it . Sometimes he longed for Alix so fiercely that he felt it would be
better to shoot himself than to suffer such anguish . He never saw her again .
Never .
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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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| 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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