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It is true that contemporary literature has a vividness of appeal that classical literature can never have and it is well for a young writer to know what his contemporaries are writing about and how . But there are fashions in ...
It is true that contemporary literature has a vividness of appeal that classical literature can never have and it is well for a young writer to know what his contemporaries are writing about and how . But there are fashions in ...
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For they , and the literature which is their expression , are wrought , not only of the actions they perform and the words they use , neither of which offer great difficulty , but of ancestral instincts , shades of feeling that they ...
For they , and the literature which is their expression , are wrought , not only of the actions they perform and the words they use , neither of which offer great difficulty , but of ancestral instincts , shades of feeling that they ...
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The literature of a country is made not by a few excellent books , I repeat , but by a great body of work , and this can only be produced by professional writers . The literature of those countries that has been produced chiefly by ...
The literature of a country is made not by a few excellent books , I repeat , but by a great body of work , and this can only be produced by professional writers . The literature of those countries that has been produced chiefly by ...
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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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