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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... King's School , Canterbury - all to be recorded with unforgiving anger in Of Human Bondage . The young Maugham had a stammer which he felt to be a severe handicap , and which never left him , although in later life he converted it into ...
... King's School , Canterbury - all to be recorded with unforgiving anger in Of Human Bondage . The young Maugham had a stammer which he felt to be a severe handicap , and which never left him , although in later life he converted it into ...
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... school early . I had been unhappy at the preparatory school to which I was sent on my father's death because it was at Canterbury and only six miles from Whitstable of which my uncle and guardian was vicar . It was an annex of the King's ...
... school early . I had been unhappy at the preparatory school to which I was sent on my father's death because it was at Canterbury and only six miles from Whitstable of which my uncle and guardian was vicar . It was an annex of the King's ...
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... school ) when they found that I no longer stammered . I woke full of exultation and it was a real , a terrible shock , when I discovered that I stammered as badly as ever . I grew older . I went to the King's School . The masters were ...
... school ) when they found that I no longer stammered . I woke full of exultation and it was a real , a terrible shock , when I discovered that I stammered as badly as ever . I grew older . I went to the King's School . The masters were ...
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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