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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... Human Bondage . He himself describes the writing of the book as an act of therapy and exorcism : My memories would not let me be . They became such a torment that I determined at last to have done with the theatre until I had released ...
... Human Bondage . He himself describes the writing of the book as an act of therapy and exorcism : My memories would not let me be . They became such a torment that I determined at last to have done with the theatre until I had released ...
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... Human Bondage there is scarcely an autobiographical work among all the novels , plays , stories , essays and travel books that Maugham wrote in a long and prolific life . Even his autobiography , he tells us in its opening words , is ...
... Human Bondage there is scarcely an autobiographical work among all the novels , plays , stories , essays and travel books that Maugham wrote in a long and prolific life . Even his autobiography , he tells us in its opening words , is ...
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... Human Bondage ? " The short answer , I would say , is that he has , and several of them at that . Of Human Bondage is a patient and precise ac- count of a boy's growing up , and the story of Philip Carey's tortured , grovelling love for ...
... Human Bondage ? " The short answer , I would say , is that he has , and several of them at that . Of Human Bondage is a patient and precise ac- count of a boy's growing up , and the story of Philip Carey's tortured , grovelling love for ...
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