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I have seen men since as I saw them then , and thus have I drawn them . It may not be a true picture and I know that many have thought it an unpleasant one . It is doubtless partial , for naturally I have seen men through my own ...
I have seen men since as I saw them then , and thus have I drawn them . It may not be a true picture and I know that many have thought it an unpleasant one . It is doubtless partial , for naturally I have seen men through my own ...
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We are told that the Norwegian public looks upon Ibsen's plays as comedies rich in laughter ; the English public has never seen anything to laugh at in those harassing dramas . The emotion of the audience , its interest , its laughter ...
We are told that the Norwegian public looks upon Ibsen's plays as comedies rich in laughter ; the English public has never seen anything to laugh at in those harassing dramas . The emotion of the audience , its interest , its laughter ...
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I had seen them pitifully writing their own plays over and over again without an inkling that the times had changed ; I had seen others desperately attempting to capture the modern spirit and dismayed when their efforts were treated ...
I had seen them pitifully writing their own plays over and over again without an inkling that the times had changed ; I had seen others desperately attempting to capture the modern spirit and dismayed when their efforts were treated ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | Literary Guild of America, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 3 Feb 2011 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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