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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Page 85
... Italy and Greece , neither of which in point of fact he knew , but he fired my young imagination and I began to learn Italian . I accepted everything he told me with the fervour of the proselyte . I should not blame him be- cause he ...
... Italy and Greece , neither of which in point of fact he knew , but he fired my young imagination and I began to learn Italian . I accepted everything he told me with the fervour of the proselyte . I should not blame him be- cause he ...
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... Italy . I went primed with much reading of Walter Pater , Ruskin and John Addington Symonds . I had the six weeks of the Easter vacation at my disposal and twenty pounds in my pocket . After going to Genoa and Pisa , where I trudged the ...
... Italy . I went primed with much reading of Walter Pater , Ruskin and John Addington Symonds . I had the six weeks of the Easter vacation at my disposal and twenty pounds in my pocket . After going to Genoa and Pisa , where I trudged the ...
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... Italian Renaissance is fascinating too , but the subject , comparatively , is small ; the ideas that informed it were few , and you get tired of its art which has been long since drained of its cre- ative value so that you are left only ...
... Italian Renaissance is fascinating too , but the subject , comparatively , is small ; the ideas that informed it were few , and you get tired of its art which has been long since drained of its cre- ative value so that you are left only ...
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accept action actors admire ęsthetic amusing appearance artist asked audience beauty believe better character comedy common conscious course critic deal delight dialogue discover drama dramatist emotion English evil exciting existence experience feeling fiction forced French gave gift give Henry Arthur Jones Human Bondage human nature humour ideas imagination instinct interest invention King's School knew Lady Frederick literature live Liza of Lambeth look matter Matthew Arnold Maugham means mind ness never notion novel novelist one's Painted Veil pattern perfect perhaps persons philosophers phrase picture play pleasure produced prose reader reason seemed sense short stories SOMERSET MAUGHAM sometimes sort soul spirit St Thomas's Hospital Stendhal success suppose tell theatre things thought tion told truth V. S. Pritchett verse Walter Pater wanted words write written wrote young youth
Bibliographic information
| 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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