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... elementary knowledge of science and scientific method. Till then I had been
concerned only with art and literature. It was a very limited knowledge, for the
demands of the curriculum at that time were small, but at all events it showed me
the ...
... elementary knowledge of science and scientific method. Till then I had been
concerned only with art and literature. It was a very limited knowledge, for the
demands of the curriculum at that time were small, but at all events it showed me
the ...
Page 165
In the first place it is not true that the young author has not sufficient knowledge to
write about his contemporaries. I do not suppose one ever in after life knows
people so intimately as those with whom one's childhood and early youth have ...
In the first place it is not true that the young author has not sufficient knowledge to
write about his contemporaries. I do not suppose one ever in after life knows
people so intimately as those with whom one's childhood and early youth have ...
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the past needs not only a vast knowledge but an effort of imagination that is
hardly to be expected in the young. I should have said that the truth was exactly
contrary to what Andrew Lang said. The novelist should turn to the historical
novel ...
the past needs not only a vast knowledge but an effort of imagination that is
hardly to be expected in the young. I should have said that the truth was exactly
contrary to what Andrew Lang said. The novelist should turn to the historical
novel ...
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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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