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It has been a little unfortunate for me , since the critic is deservedly influential and what he said in this article ... One would think that except for this the critics would never have discovered it ; but since then the adjective has ...
It has been a little unfortunate for me , since the critic is deservedly influential and what he said in this article ... One would think that except for this the critics would never have discovered it ; but since then the adjective has ...
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The old hacks , with Clement Scott at their head , abused it soundly ; the critic of The Sunday Times stated that it showed ... But the critics who had succumbed to the influence of Ibsen treated it as a work worthy of consideration .
The old hacks , with Clement Scott at their head , abused it soundly ; the critic of The Sunday Times stated that it showed ... But the critics who had succumbed to the influence of Ibsen treated it as a work worthy of consideration .
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This is that which is written by the critic to compensate himself for humiliations he has suffered in his early youth . Criticism affords him a means of regaining his self - esteem . Because at school , unable to adapt himself to the ...
This is that which is written by the critic to compensate himself for humiliations he has suffered in his early youth . Criticism affords him a means of regaining his self - esteem . Because at school , unable to adapt himself to the ...
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| Title | The Summing Up Volume 17 of Contemporary English series Volume 60 of Mentor books |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | Doubleday, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 3 Feb 2011 |
| Length | 279 pages |
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