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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... Maugham story or novel once you have taken it up but he is a man who is giving nothing away . Maugham's prose is lucid and musical , but above all it is remark- able for what it doesn't say . Consider this little story , one of Maugham's ...
... Maugham story or novel once you have taken it up but he is a man who is giving nothing away . Maugham's prose is lucid and musical , but above all it is remark- able for what it doesn't say . Consider this little story , one of Maugham's ...
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... Maugham spoke only French until he was nine or ten years old . His mother died when he was eight , his father died two years later , and Maugham was sent to live with his uncle and aunt in Whitestable , on the coast of Kent , in England ...
... Maugham spoke only French until he was nine or ten years old . His mother died when he was eight , his father died two years later , and Maugham was sent to live with his uncle and aunt in Whitestable , on the coast of Kent , in England ...
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William Somerset Maugham. also a mocking version of Maugham himself as the successful writer who has made a little ... Maugham's view of Hardy seems extremely affec- tionate . Hardy is not the lofty and magisterial man of letters he is ...
William Somerset Maugham. also a mocking version of Maugham himself as the successful writer who has made a little ... Maugham's view of Hardy seems extremely affec- tionate . Hardy is not the lofty and magisterial man of letters he is ...
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