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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... readers here and there to get out one or other of their books from a library ; but I think it is clear that neither of ... reader can take it or leave it . If he has the patience to read what follows he will see that there is only one ...
... readers here and there to get out one or other of their books from a library ; but I think it is clear that neither of ... reader can take it or leave it . If he has the patience to read what follows he will see that there is only one ...
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William Somerset Maugham. for the reader has nothing to do with the motive for which the author writes . He is only ... readers . Yet there is in writers a feeling that the public ought to like what they write and if their books do not ...
William Somerset Maugham. for the reader has nothing to do with the motive for which the author writes . He is only ... readers . Yet there is in writers a feeling that the public ought to like what they write and if their books do not ...
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... reader's interest . That is possibly the most im- portant thing in fiction , for it is by direction of inter- est that the author carries the reader along from page to page and it is by direction of interest that he induces in him the ...
... reader's interest . That is possibly the most im- portant thing in fiction , for it is by direction of inter- est that the author carries the reader along from page to page and it is by direction of interest that he induces in him the ...
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