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That settled that . It was finally decided that I should become a doctor . The
medical profession did not interest me , but it gave me the chance of living in
London and so gaining the experience of life that I hankered after . I entered St
Thomas's ...
That settled that . It was finally decided that I should become a doctor . The
medical profession did not interest me , but it gave me the chance of living in
London and so gaining the experience of life that I hankered after . I entered St
Thomas's ...
Page 142
The screen gave that artificiality which verse had once given to drama so that a
different standard of verisimilitude was set and improbability was acceptable if
only it gave rise to situation . It gave the opportunity for all manner of novel ...
The screen gave that artificiality which verse had once given to drama so that a
different standard of verisimilitude was set and improbability was acceptable if
only it gave rise to situation . It gave the opportunity for all manner of novel ...
Page 297
And though I modified this extravagance later by including the beautiful life
among the works of art that alone gave a meaning to life , it was still beauty that I
valued . All these notions I have long since abandoned . In the first place I
discovered ...
And though I modified this extravagance later by including the beautiful life
among the works of art that alone gave a meaning to life , it was still beauty that I
valued . All these notions I have long since abandoned . In the first place I
discovered ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | Doubleday, Doran & Company, Incorporated, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 21 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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