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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Hardy is not the lofty and magisterial man of letters he is supposed to be , but he is something better . He is perky and alive and irreverent , the model of a man who has managed to survive his own greatness . Of Maugham's other novels ...
Hardy is not the lofty and magisterial man of letters he is supposed to be , but he is something better . He is perky and alive and irreverent , the model of a man who has managed to survive his own greatness . Of Maugham's other novels ...
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I have written few pages that I feel I could not improve and far too many that I have left with dissatisfaction because , try as I would , I could do no better . I cannot say of myself what Johnson said of Pope : ' He never passed a ...
I have written few pages that I feel I could not improve and far too many that I have left with dissatisfaction because , try as I would , I could do no better . I cannot say of myself what Johnson said of Pope : ' He never passed a ...
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But without my physical imperfections , with a stronger body and a better brain , I would not mind entering upon the world afresh . The years that now stretch immediately in front of us look as if they would be interesting .
But without my physical imperfections , with a stronger body and a better brain , I would not mind entering upon the world afresh . The years that now stretch immediately in front of us look as if they would be interesting .
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| Title | The Summing Up Volume 10 of Collected edition of the works of W. Somerset Maugham Works, William Somerset Maugham |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Arno Press, 1977 |
| Original from | The Ohio State University |
| Digitized | 18 May 2018 |
| ISBN | 0405078307, 9780405078309 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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