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admire The Wild Duck , The Importance of Being Earnest or Man and Superman , you cannot without abuse of the word claim that they are beautiful . But the chief value of verse is that it delivers a play from sober reality .
admire The Wild Duck , The Importance of Being Earnest or Man and Superman , you cannot without abuse of the word claim that they are beautiful . But the chief value of verse is that it delivers a play from sober reality .
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They claim that ... For the novelist claims to be an artist and the artist does not copy life , he makes an arrangement out of it to suit his own purposes . Just as the painter [ 220 ] THE SUMMING UP.
They claim that ... For the novelist claims to be an artist and the artist does not copy life , he makes an arrangement out of it to suit his own purposes . Just as the painter [ 220 ] THE SUMMING UP.
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lxi That is a claim that the author has always made and to this he has added another claim : he has as- serted that he was not as other men and in conse- quence not amenable to their rules . Other men have received it with obloquy ...
lxi That is a claim that the author has always made and to this he has added another claim : he has as- serted that he was not as other men and in conse- quence not amenable to their rules . Other men have received it with obloquy ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | W. Heinemann, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0434456101, 9780434456109 |
| Length | 317 pages |
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