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Liza of Lambeth, by W. Somerset Maugham
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Title: Liza of Lambeth
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
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Language: English
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Liza of Lambeth
SOMERSET MAUGHAM
PENGUIN BOOKS
Published by the Penguin Group
First published in Great Britain by William Heinemann Ltd 1897
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It was the first Saturday afternoon in August; it had been broiling hot all day, with a cloudless sky, and the sun had been beating down on the houses, so that the top rooms were like ovens; but now with the approach of evening it was cooler, and everyone in Vere Street was out of doors.
Vere street, Lambeth, is a short, straight street leading out of the Westminster Bridge Road; it has forty houses on one side and forty houses on the other, and these eighty houses are very much more like one another than ever peas are like peas, or young ladies like young ladies. They are newish, three-storied buildings of dingy grey brick with slate roofs, and they are perfectly flat, without a bow-window or even a projecting cornice or window-sill to break the stra