The Summing UpAutobiographical and confessional, and yet not, this is one of the most highly regarded expressions of a personal credo - both a classic avowal of an author's ideas and his craft. |
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His method of teaching me English was to make me read aloud the police - court news in The Standard and I can still remember the horror with which I read the ghastly details of a murder in the train between Paris and Calais .
His method of teaching me English was to make me read aloud the police - court news in The Standard and I can still remember the horror with which I read the ghastly details of a murder in the train between Paris and Calais .
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It smacks of the English soil . To my mind King James's Bible has been a very harmful influence on English prose . I am not so stupid as to deny its great beauty . It is majestical . But the Bible is an oriental book .
It smacks of the English soil . To my mind King James's Bible has been a very harmful influence on English prose . I am not so stupid as to deny its great beauty . It is majestical . But the Bible is an oriental book .
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I have read many books on English prose , but have found it hard to profit by them ; for the most part they are vague , unduly theoretical , and often scolding . But you cannot say this of Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage .
I have read many books on English prose , but have found it hard to profit by them ; for the most part they are vague , unduly theoretical , and often scolding . But you cannot say this of Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage .
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| Title | The Summing Up Volume 10 of Collected edition of the works of W. Somerset Maugham Works, William Somerset Maugham |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Arno Press, 1977 |
| Original from | The Ohio State University |
| Digitized | 18 May 2018 |
| ISBN | 0405078307, 9780405078309 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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