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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A comment on the sudden switches of human feeling ? A dark warning about the
transience of ... Perhaps Maugham's real feelings corresponded closely enough
to the feelings he was expressing . But the expression itself still contains a large ...
A comment on the sudden switches of human feeling ? A dark warning about the
transience of ... Perhaps Maugham's real feelings corresponded closely enough
to the feelings he was expressing . But the expression itself still contains a large ...
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In France a man who has ruined himself for women is generally regarded with
sympathy and admiration ; there is a feeling that it was worth while , and the man
who has done it feels even a certain pride in the fact ; in England he will be ...
In France a man who has ruined himself for women is generally regarded with
sympathy and admiration ; there is a feeling that it was worth while , and the man
who has done it feels even a certain pride in the fact ; in England he will be ...
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I went with the feelings of any traveller interested in art and curious to see what
he could of the manners of a strange ... I became aware of the specific benefit I
was capable of getting from travel ; before , it had been only an instinctive feeling
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I went with the feelings of any traveller interested in art and curious to see what
he could of the manners of a strange ... I became aware of the specific benefit I
was capable of getting from travel ; before , it had been only an instinctive feeling
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| Title | The Summing Up Volume 10 of Collected edition of the works of W. Somerset Maugham W. Somerset Maugham Works 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 |
| Subjects | › Fiction / Literary |
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