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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Page 151
... conscious , and devises means of overcoming their diffidence ; he directs the audience's interest to the main points of the play and lures them by ingenuity to support the necessarily dull passages of exposition and the joins , the ...
... conscious , and devises means of overcoming their diffidence ; he directs the audience's interest to the main points of the play and lures them by ingenuity to support the necessarily dull passages of exposition and the joins , the ...
Page 230
William Somerset Maugham. was the first writer to grow conscious of this multiple personality and it troubled him all his life . He was always comparing the writer that he was with the man and he could not quite reconcile the ...
William Somerset Maugham. was the first writer to grow conscious of this multiple personality and it troubled him all his life . He was always comparing the writer that he was with the man and he could not quite reconcile the ...
Page 272
... conscious- ness , once divorced from the body , into the general consciousness , it is only possible to refuse the name of God to this general consciousness if you deny that it has either efficacy or value . And practically , as we know ...
... conscious- ness , once divorced from the body , into the general consciousness , it is only possible to refuse the name of God to this general consciousness if you deny that it has either efficacy or value . And practically , as we know ...
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