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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There is a great deal of cruelty and violence and revenge in Maugham's fiction . Mackintosh , a British administrator in Samoa , so hates his superior that he leaves his gun lying around for a hostile native to use on the hated man .
There is a great deal of cruelty and violence and revenge in Maugham's fiction . Mackintosh , a British administrator in Samoa , so hates his superior that he leaves his gun lying around for a hostile native to use on the hated man .
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This is true even of Maugham's non - fiction . His travel books are the notes of a man looking for stories . On a Chinese Screen , for example , is a set of jottings which Maugham decided to leave as jottings , but some of them were so ...
This is true even of Maugham's non - fiction . His travel books are the notes of a man looking for stories . On a Chinese Screen , for example , is a set of jottings which Maugham decided to leave as jottings , but some of them were so ...
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As a writer of fiction I go back , through innumerable generations , to the I teller of tales round the fire in the cavern that shel . tered neolithic men . I have had some sort of story to tell and it has interested me to tell it .
As a writer of fiction I go back , through innumerable generations , to the I teller of tales round the fire in the cavern that shel . tered neolithic men . I have had some sort of story to tell and it has interested me to tell it .
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| 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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