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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... Human Bondage , and turning my wishes into fiction , as writers will , towards the end of it I drew a picture of the marriage I should have liked 1 to make . Readers on the whole have found it [ 193 ] THE SUMMING UP 1 ...
... Human Bondage , and turning my wishes into fiction , as writers will , towards the end of it I drew a picture of the marriage I should have liked 1 to make . Readers on the whole have found it [ 193 ] THE SUMMING UP 1 ...
Page 245
... Human Bondage I gave a chapter to my hero's loss of the faith in which he had been brought up . The book was read in typescript by a very clever woman who at that time was good enough to be interested in me . She told me that this ...
... Human Bondage I gave a chapter to my hero's loss of the faith in which he had been brought up . The book was read in typescript by a very clever woman who at that time was good enough to be interested in me . She told me that this ...
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... human race , it has seemed to me that there the perfect life was perfectly realized . There life , like a good story ... human bondage . Their nobility strengthens his wavering sense of his spiritual sig- nificance and [ 294 ] THE ...
... human race , it has seemed to me that there the perfect life was perfectly realized . There life , like a good story ... human bondage . Their nobility strengthens his wavering sense of his spiritual sig- nificance and [ 294 ] THE ...
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