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The Magician a Novel

By: Somerset Maugham

... last, in desperation, I sent one, which I called A Man of Honour, to the Stage Society, which gave two performances, one on Sunday night, another on... ...t merit to please an intellectual audience. As every one knows, it was the Stage Society that produced the early plays of Bernard Shaw. The committee ... ...st serve to keep his theatre open for a few weeks, by the end of which the actors he wanted for the play he had been obliged to postpone would be at l... ...anged in a horse shoe, which was reserved for a small party of English or American painters and a few Frenchmen with their wives. At least, they were... ...s, who painted still life with a certain amount of skill, and Clayson, the American sculptor. Raggles stood for rank and fashion at the Chien Noir. He... ...t out with the tall Jagson, who smarted still under Haddo’s insolence. The American sculptor paid his bill si lently. When he was at the door, Haddo ... ...y off the most famous, the most infamous, of them all, Sprenger’s Malleus Malefikorum. ‘Here is one of my greatest treasures. It is the Clavicula Sa... ... became manifest. Of these, the most marvellous were those strange beings, male and female, which were called homunculi. The old philosophers doubted ... ... was found that the spirits had grown to about a span and a half each; the male homunculi were come into possession of heavy beards, and the nails of...

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