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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... Liza of Lambeth , based on his medical experi- ences in the slums and at the hospital , was published in 1897 , and on the strength of its moderate success he decided to devote his life to writing . For the next few years he lived in ...
... Liza of Lambeth , based on his medical experi- ences in the slums and at the hospital , was published in 1897 , and on the strength of its moderate success he decided to devote his life to writing . For the next few years he lived in ...
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... Liza of Lambeth is still readable , but any merit it may have is due to the luck I had in being , by my work as a medical student , thrown into contact with a side of life that at that time had been little exploited by novelists ...
... Liza of Lambeth is still readable , but any merit it may have is due to the luck I had in being , by my work as a medical student , thrown into contact with a side of life that at that time had been little exploited by novelists ...
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... Liza of Lambeth . But this was not in my ideas at all . I was ambitious . I had a feeling , I do not know where I got it , that you must not pursue a success , but fly from it ; and I had learnt from the French to set no great store on ...
... Liza of Lambeth . But this was not in my ideas at all . I was ambitious . I had a feeling , I do not know where I got it , that you must not pursue a success , but fly from it ; and I had learnt from the French to set no great store on ...
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