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And he never even made that poor creature whom he married happy . How could
he go on hiding from her year after year that he had nothing to give her but pity ?
Once in his agony he told her about Alix and she tortured him ever after with ...
And he never even made that poor creature whom he married happy . How could
he go on hiding from her year after year that he had nothing to give her but pity ?
Once in his agony he told her about Alix and she tortured him ever after with ...
Page 256
He talked with precision , using a copious vocabulary and forming his sentences
with deliberation ; he never used a short word when a longer one would do ; he
never paused . He went on and on . It was not a torrent , for there was nothing ...
He talked with precision , using a copious vocabulary and forming his sentences
with deliberation ; he never used a short word when a longer one would do ; he
never paused . He went on and on . It was not a torrent , for there was nothing ...
Page 275
... character : when she had a toothache Vladimir Semenovich suffered the
agonies of the damned and when her heart was wrung by the suffering of her
unhappy country Vladimir Semenovich might well have wished he had never
been born .
... character : when she had a toothache Vladimir Semenovich suffered the
agonies of the damned and when her heart was wrung by the suffering of her
unhappy country Vladimir Semenovich might well have wished he had never
been born .
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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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