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Although maugham had written short stories early in his career. With the experienced actresss instinct to fit the gesture to the. Somerset maugham was born in thebritish embassy in paris. The trembling of a leaf by william somerset maugham. Publication date 20071210 topics bbc radio reading. William somerset maugham was born at the british embassy in paris, france, where his father was an english lawyer handling the legal affairs. From maughams first five mature collections, six stories each, published between 1921 and 1933, and collected in east and west 1934, altogether in england i wouldnt want to be without even my least favourite one which is miss king from ashenden, by the way.
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