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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... course , Maugham is a read- able writer , a man who knows the art of keeping his audience with him , and the best test of his readability is to read him . A simple illustration of the way he makes himself readable , though , is his ...
... course , Maugham is a read- able writer , a man who knows the art of keeping his audience with him , and the best test of his readability is to read him . A simple illustration of the way he makes himself readable , though , is his ...
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... course not speaking of plays in verse ; the greatest and noblest of the arts can lend its own life to the hum- ble partner ; I am speaking of the plays in prose with which our modern theatre is alone occupied . I can think of no serious ...
... course not speaking of plays in verse ; the greatest and noblest of the arts can lend its own life to the hum- ble partner ; I am speaking of the plays in prose with which our modern theatre is alone occupied . I can think of no serious ...
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... course peculiar to himself , that had never before found expression on the stage . The English , whatever they were in the Elizabethan era , are not an amorous race . Love with them is more sentimental than passionate . They are of course ...
... course peculiar to himself , that had never before found expression on the stage . The English , whatever they were in the Elizabethan era , are not an amorous race . Love with them is more sentimental than passionate . They are of course ...
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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