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The game played now was contract , with which he was not very familiar , and the
stakes were high ; but the game was obviously but a pretext and Ashenden had
no notion what other game was being played under the rose . It might be that ...
The game played now was contract , with which he was not very familiar , and the
stakes were high ; but the game was obviously but a pretext and Ashenden had
no notion what other game was being played under the rose . It might be that ...
Page 170
... 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 same notion had come to him .
... 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 same notion had come to him .
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The notion amused Brown , who had never met an acrobat , and he accepted .
Yvonne suggested that he might find her to his taste and if he did she could
promise him that he would not find her very difficult to persuade . With his grand
air and ...
The notion amused Brown , who had never met an acrobat , and he accepted .
Yvonne suggested that he might find her to his taste and if he did she could
promise him that he would not find her very difficult to persuade . With his grand
air and ...
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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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