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... story - teller it is very hard to put down a Maugham story or novel once you have taken it up but he is a man who is giving nothing away . Maugham's prose is lucid and musical , but above all it is remark- able for what it doesn't say ...
... story - teller it is very hard to put down a Maugham story or novel once you have taken it up but he is a man who is giving nothing away . Maugham's prose is lucid and musical , but above all it is remark- able for what it doesn't say ...
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... story of an unhappily - married man who falls in love with a girl , and hearing that his wife is dead proposes to her . His wife turns up and the lovers separate . On the Eve is the story of a girl who falls in love with a young ...
... story of an unhappily - married man who falls in love with a girl , and hearing that his wife is dead proposes to her . His wife turns up and the lovers separate . On the Eve is the story of a girl who falls in love with a young ...
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... stories one has read and forgotten . This reflection has been occasioned by a story of G's . It has been in several anthologies , and I think he was a trifle hurt that I didn't put it in mine . He writes with distinction , and he has ...
... stories one has read and forgotten . This reflection has been occasioned by a story of G's . It has been in several anthologies , and I think he was a trifle hurt that I didn't put it in mine . He writes with distinction , and he has ...
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