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Page 133
When you consider the mental content of what these authors had to offer , you
can , unless you are but ill educated , hardly fail to see that it consisted of no
more than the common culture of the day . Shaw's ideas were expressed with
great ...
When you consider the mental content of what these authors had to offer , you
can , unless you are but ill educated , hardly fail to see that it consisted of no
more than the common culture of the day . Shaw's ideas were expressed with
great ...
Page 186
To the artist the communication he offers is a by - product . I am not speaking now
of those who practise ... He forms his decision from the ęsthetic value of the
communication that is offered to him . If it yields escape from the reality of the
world ...
To the artist the communication he offers is a by - product . I am not speaking now
of those who practise ... He forms his decision from the ęsthetic value of the
communication that is offered to him . If it yields escape from the reality of the
world ...
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... and so offered a better subject of discourse than the novel of character or
adventure . The intelligent critics , the more serious novel readers , have since
then given most of their attention to the writers who seemed to offer something
new in ...
... and so offered a better subject of discourse than the novel of character or
adventure . The intelligent critics , the more serious novel readers , have since
then given most of their attention to the writers who seemed to offer something
new in ...
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| 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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