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Page 164
Such success as the book had was due to a lucky chance. It augured nothing for
my future. But this I did not know. Fisher Unwin pressed me to write another much
longer book about the slums. He told me that was what the public wanted from ...
Such success as the book had was due to a lucky chance. It augured nothing for
my future. But this I did not know. Fisher Unwin pressed me to write another much
longer book about the slums. He told me that was what the public wanted from ...
Page 182
Success. It is the most difficult thing the writer has to cope with. When after a long
and bitter struggle he has at last achieved it he finds that it spreads a snare to
entangle and destroy him. Few of us have the determination to avoid its perils.
Success. It is the most difficult thing the writer has to cope with. When after a long
and bitter struggle he has at last achieved it he finds that it spreads a snare to
entangle and destroy him. Few of us have the determination to avoid its perils.
Page 190
li When, having achieved success as a dramatist, I determined to devote the rest
of my life to playwriting I reckoned without my host. I was happy, I was prosperous
, I was busy, my head was full of plays that I wanted to write; I do not know ...
li When, having achieved success as a dramatist, I determined to devote the rest
of my life to playwriting I reckoned without my host. I was happy, I was prosperous
, I was busy, my head was full of plays that I wanted to write; I do not know ...
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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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