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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... amusing and I decided that I could write a comedy . I made up my mind to write one now . I called it Loaves and Fishes . Its hero was a worldly , ambitious parson and the story dealt with his courtship of a rich widow , his intrigues to ...
... amusing and I decided that I could write a comedy . I made up my mind to write one now . I called it Loaves and Fishes . Its hero was a worldly , ambitious parson and the story dealt with his courtship of a rich widow , his intrigues to ...
Page 120
William Somerset Maugham. but it has some amusing scenes in it . The others fell between two stools . One portrayed ... amuse , and I heightened the note . They were neither frankly realistic nor frankly theatrical . My indecision was ...
William Somerset Maugham. but it has some amusing scenes in it . The others fell between two stools . One portrayed ... amuse , and I heightened the note . They were neither frankly realistic nor frankly theatrical . My indecision was ...
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... amusing dia- logue , and an eye for theatrically effective charac- ter . The influence of Shaw led him to attach impor- tance to ideas that were somewhat commonplace and to suppose that the natural discursiveness of his mind was a ...
... amusing dia- logue , and an eye for theatrically effective charac- ter . The influence of Shaw led him to attach impor- tance to ideas that were somewhat commonplace and to suppose that the natural discursiveness of his mind was a ...
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