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Page 114
... amusing and I decided that I could write a comedy . I made up my mind to write one now . I called it Loaves and Fishes . Its hero was a worldly , ambitious parson and the story dealt with his courtship of a rich widow , his intrigues to ...
... amusing and I decided that I could write a comedy . I made up my mind to write one now . I called it Loaves and Fishes . Its hero was a worldly , ambitious parson and the story dealt with his courtship of a rich widow , his intrigues to ...
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William Somerset Maugham. but it has some amusing scenes in it . The others fell between two stools . One portrayed the narrow , hide- bound life of country gentle folk ; the other , the po- litical and financial world ; with both of ...
William Somerset Maugham. but it has some amusing scenes in it . The others fell between two stools . One portrayed the narrow , hide- bound life of country gentle folk ; the other , the po- litical and financial world ; with both of ...
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... amusing dia- logue , and an eye for theatrically effective charac- ter . The influence of Shaw led him to attach impor- tance to ideas that were somewhat commonplace and to suppose that the natural discursiveness of his mind was a ...
... amusing dia- logue , and an eye for theatrically effective charac- ter . The influence of Shaw led him to attach impor- tance to ideas that were somewhat commonplace and to suppose that the natural discursiveness of his mind was a ...
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