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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... V. S. Pritchett suggested , discovering that the white man's burden is as often as not the white woman's infi- delity , which is in turn a sort of infection by strange places and lone- liness . Maugham writes of England too , of course ...
... V. S. Pritchett suggested , discovering that the white man's burden is as often as not the white woman's infi- delity , which is in turn a sort of infection by strange places and lone- liness . Maugham writes of England too , of course ...
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... V. S. Pritchett suggested that Maugham's fiction catered to our wish to be worldly and wise in the manner of Maugham's much - travelled , never - ruffled narrators , and that this accounted largely for his huge success . I think the ...
... V. S. Pritchett suggested that Maugham's fiction catered to our wish to be worldly and wise in the manner of Maugham's much - travelled , never - ruffled narrators , and that this accounted largely for his huge success . I think the ...
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