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He could only do this by causing his hero to act incongruously with his character and his intelligence . The shock is so great that you no longer believe , and when you do not believe in a novel you are no longer held .
He could only do this by causing his hero to act incongruously with his character and his intelligence . The shock is so great that you no longer believe , and when you do not believe in a novel you are no longer held .
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written the names of the persons who had suggested his characters ; Dickens , as we all know , portrayed his father in Mr. Micawber and Leigh Hunt in Harold Skimpole . Turgenev stated that he could not create a character at all unless ...
written the names of the persons who had suggested his characters ; Dickens , as we all know , portrayed his father in Mr. Micawber and Leigh Hunt in Harold Skimpole . Turgenev stated that he could not create a character at all unless ...
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their lives so empty that they deliberately identified themselves with a creature of odious character in order in some small circle to give themselves a petty notoriety . Sometimes the author takes a very commonplace person and from him ...
their lives so empty that they deliberately identified themselves with a creature of odious character in order in some small circle to give themselves a petty notoriety . Sometimes the author takes a very commonplace person and from him ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | Literary Guild of America, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 3 Feb 2011 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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