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It has been a little unfortunate for me , since the critic is deservedly influential and what he said in this article ... One would think that except for this the critics would never have discovered it ; but since then the adjective has ...
It has been a little unfortunate for me , since the critic is deservedly influential and what he said in this article ... One would think that except for this the critics would never have discovered it ; but since then the adjective has ...
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two than reading a volume of criticism . It is diverting to agree ; it is ... I am not a scholar , a student or a critic ; I am a professional writer and now I read only what is useful to me professionally . Anyone can write a book that ...
two than reading a volume of criticism . It is diverting to agree ; it is ... I am not a scholar , a student or a critic ; I am a professional writer and now I read only what is useful to me professionally . Anyone can write a book that ...
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It is a great misfortune to English letters that we have not had in this century a critic of the class , say , of Sainte - Beuve , Matthew Arnold or even Brunetière . It is true that he would not have occupied himself much with current ...
It is a great misfortune to English letters that we have not had in this century a critic of the class , say , of Sainte - Beuve , Matthew Arnold or even Brunetière . It is true that he would not have occupied himself much with current ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | Literary Guild of America, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 26 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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