The Summing Up, Part 354, Volume 1The reminiscences of the author's lifetime; insight on life and art; education, discipline and training of a writer. |
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Page 49
Many are forced by the situation in which they were born and the necessity of
earning a living to keep to a straight and narrow road in which there is no
possibility of turning to the right or to the left. Upon these the pattern is imposed.
Life itself ...
Many are forced by the situation in which they were born and the necessity of
earning a living to keep to a straight and narrow road in which there is no
possibility of turning to the right or to the left. Upon these the pattern is imposed.
Life itself ...
Page 139
To audiences who had been forced to sit through plays in which love was the
motive of the intrigue, but who had an instinctive feeling that love, though all very
well in its way, was not really quite so important as the dramatists pretended, ...
To audiences who had been forced to sit through plays in which love was the
motive of the intrigue, but who had an instinctive feeling that love, though all very
well in its way, was not really quite so important as the dramatists pretended, ...
Page 176
... such leisure as this occupation affords him. This course, indeed, was forced
upon him very generally in the past, when the author, however distinguished and
popular, could not earn enough money by writing to keep body and soul together.
... such leisure as this occupation affords him. This course, indeed, was forced
upon him very generally in the past, when the author, however distinguished and
popular, could not earn enough money by writing to keep body and soul together.
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| Title | The Summing Up, Part 354, Volume 1 Armed Services ed Armed Services editions Volume 10 of Collected edition of the works of W. Somerset Maugham Volume 5339 of Collection of British authors International Collector's Library Volume 60 of Mentor books Volume 5339 of Tauchnitz edition of British and American authors Works, William Somerset Maugham |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | Literary Guild of America, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 26 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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