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... myself because I can only treat of these subjects as they have affected me . But it is not about my doings . I have no desire to lay bare my heart , and I 1 put limits to the intimacy that I wish the reader 14 THE SUMMING UP IV ...
... myself because I can only treat of these subjects as they have affected me . But it is not about my doings . I have no desire to lay bare my heart , and I 1 put limits to the intimacy that I wish the reader 14 THE SUMMING UP IV ...
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From time to time they will doubtless find a critic in search of a subject to write an article about them , which may cause readers here and there to get out one or other of their books from a library ; but I think it is clear that ...
From time to time they will doubtless find a critic in search of a subject to write an article about them , which may cause readers here and there to get out one or other of their books from a library ; but I think it is clear that ...
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Jane Austen leads the reader so firmly along the line of the simple story that he does not stop to reflect that Elinor is a prig , Marianne a fool , and the three men lifeless dummies . Flaubert , aiming at a rigid objectivity , directs ...
Jane Austen leads the reader so firmly along the line of the simple story that he does not stop to reflect that Elinor is a prig , Marianne a fool , and the three men lifeless dummies . Flaubert , aiming at a rigid objectivity , directs ...
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| Title | The Summing Up Volume 17 of Contemporary English series Volume 60 of Mentor books |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | Doubleday, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 3 Feb 2011 |
| Length | 279 pages |
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