W. Somerset Maugham
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1,790 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 8 Sep
W. Somerset Maugham’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Lithley the black snake uncoils in his sight.
Voluminously the bloated boa convolves before him.
All horrant the cobra exalts his hooded head.
And the spanning jaws fly open.
Quivers and chitters the tail of the cheerful rattlesnake.
Silently slips out the forked tongue.
and is silently absorbed.
The fangless adder wraps up the leg of the professor, lays clammy coils about his neck, and pokes a flattened head curiously into his open mouth.
The young man of Calusa is interested, his feelings transcend expression.
Not a syllable breathes he.
But with a deep drawn sigh he turns his broad back upon the astonishing display.
and goes thoughtfully forth into his native wilds.
Half an hour later,
Might have been seen that brawny Cullusin, emerging from an adjacent forest with a strong faggot.
Then this Calusa man
Unto the appalled professor thus, said
There ain't no good place you're in closey, for fittin' out serpents, to be subtler than all the beasts o' the field.
There's emity, a tween our seed and their seed, and it shall brows their head.
And with a singleness of purpose and a rapt attention to detail that would have done credit to a lean porker garnering, the strewn colonels, behind a deaf old man, who plants his field with corn.
He started in upon that reptilian host and exterminated it with a careful thoroughness of extermination.
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