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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Page 105
... exciting . At last the dress- makers filter through the fireproof door and resume their seats , the representatives of rival firms at a haughty distance from one another , and the stage manager puts his head round the curtain . " All ...
... exciting . At last the dress- makers filter through the fireproof door and resume their seats , the representatives of rival firms at a haughty distance from one another , and the stage manager puts his head round the curtain . " All ...
Page 174
... exciting and various . The writer is free to work in whatever place and at whatever time he chooses ; he is free to idle if he feels ill or dispirited . But it is a profession that has disadvantages . One is that though the whole world ...
... exciting and various . The writer is free to work in whatever place and at whatever time he chooses ; he is free to idle if he feels ill or dispirited . But it is a profession that has disadvantages . One is that though the whole world ...
Page 243
... exciting enough to make it worth his while to risk a tumble . I was much disconcerted by the claim that I found here and there advanced that philosophy was the province of the higher mathematicians ; and though it seemed hard to me to ...
... exciting enough to make it worth his while to risk a tumble . I was much disconcerted by the claim that I found here and there advanced that philosophy was the province of the higher mathematicians ; and though it seemed hard to me to ...
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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