The Summing Up, Part 354, Volume 1This book represents Maugham's life and philosophy in his own words. It is autobiographical in nature, though most of the work is concerned with Maugham's unique and fascinating opinions on the theatre, writing, metaphysics and the interesting people he encountered in his long and successful career. |
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From time to time they will doubtless find a critic in search of a subject to write an
article about them, which may cause readers here and there to get out one or
other of their books from a library; but I think it is clear that neither of them wrote ...
From time to time they will doubtless find a critic in search of a subject to write an
article about them, which may cause readers here and there to get out one or
other of their books from a library; but I think it is clear that neither of them wrote ...
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for the reader has nothing to do with the motive for which the author writes. He is
only concerned with the result. Many writers need the spur of necessity to write at
all (Samuel Johnson was one of them), but they do not write for money. It would ...
for the reader has nothing to do with the motive for which the author writes. He is
only concerned with the result. Many writers need the spur of necessity to write at
all (Samuel Johnson was one of them), but they do not write for money. It would ...
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For as a writer he finds himself compelled by his readers to rigid determination. I
pointed out earlier in these pages how unwilling an audience is to accept
impulse on the stage. Now an impulse is merely an urge to action of whose
motive the ...
For as a writer he finds himself compelled by his readers to rigid determination. I
pointed out earlier in these pages how unwilling an audience is to accept
impulse on the stage. Now an impulse is merely an urge to action of whose
motive the ...
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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 Mentor book Volume 5339 of Tauchnitz edition of British and American authors Works, William Somerset Maugham |
| Authors | William Somerset Maugham, Maria Dermoût |
| Publisher | Doubleday, Doran & Company, Incorporated, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 26 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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