The Summing Up

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Arno Press, 1977 - Biography & Autobiography - 310 pages
Autobiographical 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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William Somerset Maugham. admire them in others as I could admire their far- fetched tropes and the unusual but suggestive lan- guage in which they clothed their thoughts , but my own invention never presented me with such embel ...
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... admire . I intoxicated myself with my own enthusiasm . I would not listen to the still small voice within me that carped . Now I know that there is a great deal of fustian in these novels . But the strange thing is that , reading them ...

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Contents

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Section 2
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Section 3
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About the author (1977)

Writer William Somerset Maugham was born in Paris on January 25, 1874. He attended St. Thomas's Medical School in London. A prolific writer, Maugham produced novels, short stories, plays, and an autobiographical novel, "Of Human Bondage." Although he remains popular for his novels and short stories, when he was alive his plays, now dated, were also popular, and in 1908 four of his plays ran simultaneously. Maugham died in Nice, France, on December 16, 1965.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Summing Up
Volume 10 of Collected edition of the works of W. Somerset Maugham
Works, William Somerset Maugham
AuthorWilliam Somerset Maugham
Editionreprint
PublisherArno Press, 1977
Original fromThe Ohio State University
Digitized18 May 2018
ISBN0405078307, 9780405078309
Length310 pages
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