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Page 156
... seems to have been his favourite dramatist . I suspect that he liked them because of their undoubted incidental resemblance to himself as artist but that they reinforced his own predilections rather than directly influenced him . We ...
... seems to have been his favourite dramatist . I suspect that he liked them because of their undoubted incidental resemblance to himself as artist but that they reinforced his own predilections rather than directly influenced him . We ...
Page 314
... seems carefully planted where it is in the novel to make a happy ending possible , and the values they stand for , seem to me devices out of Samuel Butler , and their appearance flaws the novel as nothing else does . Maugham's third ...
... seems carefully planted where it is in the novel to make a happy ending possible , and the values they stand for , seem to me devices out of Samuel Butler , and their appearance flaws the novel as nothing else does . Maugham's third ...
Page 330
... seems constrained , not by his own free will but by some powerful and unscrupulous tyrant who has him in thrall , to provide a plot , to provide comedy , tragedy , love interest , and an air of probability embalming the whole so ...
... seems constrained , not by his own free will but by some powerful and unscrupulous tyrant who has him in thrall , to provide a plot , to provide comedy , tragedy , love interest , and an air of probability embalming the whole so ...
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