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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... concerned only with art and literature . It was a very limited knowledge , for the demands of the curriculum at that time were small , but at all events it showed me the road that led to a region of which I was completely ignorant [ 71 ] ...
... concerned only with art and literature . It was a very limited knowledge , for the demands of the curriculum at that time were small , but at all events it showed me the road that led to a region of which I was completely ignorant [ 71 ] ...
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... concerned with the subject . The inclination to digress is human . But the dramatist must avoid it even more ... concern yourself with the fortunes of certain people under certain conditions and keeps you attached to them till he has ...
... concerned with the subject . The inclination to digress is human . But the dramatist must avoid it even more ... concern yourself with the fortunes of certain people under certain conditions and keeps you attached to them till he has ...
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... concerned whether it is a truthful likeness ; he is con- cerned only to create a plausible harmony convenient for his own purposes . So different may be the finished product from the original that it must be a common experience of ...
... concerned whether it is a truthful likeness ; he is con- cerned only to create a plausible harmony convenient for his own purposes . So different may be the finished product from the original that it must be a common experience of ...
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accept action actors admire æsthetic amusing appearance artist asked audience beauty believe better character comedy common conscious course critic deal delight dialogue discover drama dramatist emotion English evil exciting existence experience feeling fiction forced French gave gift give Henry Arthur Jones Human Bondage human nature humour ideas imagination instinct interest invention King's School knew Lady Frederick literature live Liza of Lambeth look matter Matthew Arnold Maugham means mind ness never notion novel novelist one's Painted Veil pattern perfect perhaps persons philosophers phrase picture play pleasure produced prose reader reason seemed sense short stories SOMERSET MAUGHAM sometimes sort soul spirit St Thomas's Hospital Stendhal success suppose tell theatre things thought tion told truth V. S. Pritchett verse Walter Pater wanted words write written wrote young youth