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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... expressing . But the expression itself still contains a large element of pose : there is a sense of the audience there . Somerset Maug- ham , seventy years old , is playing at being Somerset Maugham , the shocking , wicked old man ...
... expressing . But the expression itself still contains a large element of pose : there is a sense of the audience there . Somerset Maug- ham , seventy years old , is playing at being Somerset Maugham , the shocking , wicked old man ...
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... 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 sufficiently sexual for the purpose of repro- ducing ...
... 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 sufficiently sexual for the purpose of repro- ducing ...
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... expression of an adventure of his soul . This is a counsel of perfection and in an im- perfect world a certain indulgence should be be- stowed on the professional writer ; but this surely is the aim he should keep before him . He does ...
... expression of an adventure of his soul . This is a counsel of perfection and in an im- perfect world a certain indulgence should be be- stowed on the professional writer ; but this surely is the aim he should keep before him . He does ...
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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