The Summing Up

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Arno Press, 1977 - Fiction - 310 pages
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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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THE SUMMING UP
W. SOMER MAUGHAI
Snippet view - 1938
The Summing Up, Part 354, Volume 1
William Somerset Maugham,Maria Dermoût
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The Summing Up
William Somerset Maugham
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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.

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TitleThe Summing Up
Volume 10 of Collected edition of the works of W. Somerset Maugham
W. Somerset Maugham Works
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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