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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... easily into the wilful . Some writers who do not think clearly are inclined to suppose that their thoughts have a ... easy to persuade oneself that a phrase that one does not quite understand may mean a great deal more than one ...
... easily into the wilful . Some writers who do not think clearly are inclined to suppose that their thoughts have a ... easy to persuade oneself that a phrase that one does not quite understand may mean a great deal more than one ...
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... easy camaraderie , the hurried lunch at a res- taurant round the corner with a member of the cast and the cup of ... easily to my pen . It has interested me to [ 103 ] THE SUMMING UP XXX ...
... easy camaraderie , the hurried lunch at a res- taurant round the corner with a member of the cast and the cup of ... easily to my pen . It has interested me to [ 103 ] THE SUMMING UP XXX ...
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accept action actors admire ęsthetic 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