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but to the philosophical writings of figures such as Dutch theologian Spinoza and German pessimist Schopenhauer. Above all, Brooks encouraged his protégé to write. Maugham needed no second asking, and within the year had completed his first book, a biography of the German composer Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791–1864), a pioneer of grand opera

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