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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... easy to read but also easy to forget . It is not to be compared with its close contem- poraries , Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man or Lawrence's Sons and Lovers . Cakes and Ale , on the other hand , Maugham's own favourite ...
... easy to read but also easy to forget . It is not to be compared with its close contem- poraries , Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man or Lawrence's Sons and Lovers . Cakes and Ale , on the other hand , Maugham's own favourite ...
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... easy in English litera- ture to find a poet with a happier gift than Herrick and yet no one would claim that he had more than a delightful talent . It seems to me that what makes genius is the combination of natural gifts for creation ...
... easy in English litera- ture to find a poet with a happier gift than Herrick and yet no one would claim that he had more than a delightful talent . It seems to me that what makes genius is the combination of natural gifts for creation ...
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... easy and probable . The jokes no longer make me smile , but they are said in the words people would have used then . I caught the colloquial note by in- stinct . But the jokes are few and savage . The themes of my plays were sombre ...
... easy and probable . The jokes no longer make me smile , but they are said in the words people would have used then . I caught the colloquial note by in- stinct . But the jokes are few and savage . The themes of my plays were sombre ...
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Bibliographic information
| 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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