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Maugham addresses the reader with a candour entirely his own. One of somersets more famous short stories read by kenneth danziger video version here. Complete short stories w somerset maugham world over. Somerset maugham 25 january 1874 16 december 1965 william somerset maugham was born at the british embassy in paris, france, where his father was an english lawyer handling the legal affairs of the british embassy. China represents both an irresistible attraction and an anxiety, a fear mixed with repulsion. Name of writer, number pages in ebook and size are given in our post. Somerset maugham volume 3 miss king the hairless mexican. Rain the fall of edward barnard honolulu the ant and the grasshopper the pool mackintosh the three fat women of antibes the facts of life. Caesars wife east of suez the explorer the hero the land o. Elsewhere, he offered a lengthy, more disparaging assessment of his early.
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