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It is true that contemporary literature has a vividness of appeal that classical literature can never have and it is well for a young writer to know what his contemporaries are writing about and how . But there are fashions in ...
It is true that contemporary literature has a vividness of appeal that classical literature can never have and it is well for a young writer to know what his contemporaries are writing about and how . But there are fashions in ...
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For they , and the literature which is their expression , are wrought , not only of the actions they perform and the words they use , neither of which offer great difficulty , but of ancestral instincts , shades of feeling that they ...
For they , and the literature which is their expression , are wrought , not only of the actions they perform and the words they use , neither of which offer great difficulty , but of ancestral instincts , shades of feeling that they ...
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It is true that he would not have occupied himself much with current literature , and if we may judge by the three I have mentioned , had he done so it would have been of no direct service to contemporary writers .
It is true that he would not have occupied himself much with current literature , and if we may judge by the three I have mentioned , had he done so it would have been of no direct service to contemporary writers .
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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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