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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... Jack Straw and Mrs. Dot and one near - flop - The Explorer - so that four of Maugham's plays were then running in London at one time , and a cartoon published in Punch showed Shakespeare biting his nails and brooding in front of the ...
... Jack Straw and Mrs. Dot and one near - flop - The Explorer - so that four of Maugham's plays were then running in London at one time , and a cartoon published in Punch showed Shakespeare biting his nails and brooding in front of the ...
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... Jack Straw . I had been under the impression that the small success I had had with the Stage Society would im- press managers in my favour . To my mortification I found that this was not so . In fact my connection with that body ...
... Jack Straw . I had been under the impression that the small success I had had with the Stage Society would im- press managers in my favour . To my mortification I found that this was not so . In fact my connection with that body ...
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... Jack Straw at the Vaude- ville . In June Lewis Waller put on at the Lyric a play called The Explorer which I had written im- mediately after A Man of Honour . I had achieved what I wanted . xxxiii The first three had long runs . The ...
... Jack Straw at the Vaude- ville . In June Lewis Waller put on at the Lyric a play called The Explorer which I had written im- mediately after A Man of Honour . I had achieved what I wanted . xxxiii The first three had long runs . The ...
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accept action actors admire æsthetic 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