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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... offer to read it . I hesitated , because I knew that he judged from a standpoint of excellence that is hard to attain ; and though I was aware that he had a profound knowledge of Elizabethan literature , his inordinate admiration for ...
... offer to read it . I hesitated , because I knew that he judged from a standpoint of excellence that is hard to attain ; and though I was aware that he had a profound knowledge of Elizabethan literature , his inordinate admiration for ...
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... 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 vivacity . They could only have surprised be- cause the ...
... 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 vivacity . They could only have surprised be- cause the ...
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... offered a better subject of discourse than the novel of character or adventure . The intelligent critics , the more serious novel read- ers , have since then given most of their ... offer something new in technique [ 216 ] THE SUMMING UP.
... offered a better subject of discourse than the novel of character or adventure . The intelligent critics , the more serious novel read- ers , have since then given most of their ... offer something new in technique [ 216 ] THE SUMMING UP.
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