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It seemed to me that in the novel and in the short story perfection had been sometimes achieved , and though I could scarcely hope to reach it , I had a notion that in those mediums I could come nearer to it than I had any chance of ...
It seemed to me that in the novel and in the short story perfection had been sometimes achieved , and though I could scarcely hope to reach it , I had a notion that in those mediums I could come nearer to it than I had any chance of ...
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But when I compare my early novels with those that are written by young men now I cannot but see that theirs are ... so much advanced that it is now as easy to write a good novel as then it was difficult to write even a mediocre one .
But when I compare my early novels with those that are written by young men now I cannot but see that theirs are ... so much advanced that it is now as easy to write a good novel as then it was difficult to write even a mediocre one .
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They have thought that they were learning something when they read novels in which the characters delivered their views on ... The novel was regarded as a convenient pulpit for the dissemi- nation of ideas and a good many novelists were ...
They have thought that they were learning something when they read novels in which the characters delivered their views on ... The novel was regarded as a convenient pulpit for the dissemi- nation of ideas and a good many novelists were ...
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Bibliographic information
| 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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