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I asked myself what sort of part would be likely to appeal to a leading lady , and having made up my mind on this point , wrote Lady Frederick . But its most effective scene , the scene that afterwards made it so successful , was one in ...
I asked myself what sort of part would be likely to appeal to a leading lady , and having made up my mind on this point , wrote Lady Frederick . But its most effective scene , the scene that afterwards made it so successful , was one in ...
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XLIII THE FIRST novel I wrote was called Liza of Lambeth . It was accepted by the first publisher to whom I sent it . For some time Fisher Unwin had been bringing out in what he called The Pseudonym Series a number of short novels which ...
XLIII THE FIRST novel I wrote was called Liza of Lambeth . It was accepted by the first publisher to whom I sent it . For some time Fisher Unwin had been bringing out in what he called The Pseudonym Series a number of short novels which ...
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LVI I HAVE always liked to let things simmer in my mind for a long time before setting them down on paper , and it was not till four years after I had made my notes for it that I wrote the first of the stories I had conceived in the ...
LVI I HAVE always liked to let things simmer in my mind for a long time before setting them down on paper , and it was not till four years after I had made my notes for it that I wrote the first of the stories I had conceived in the ...
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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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