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 . When
the ...
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 . When
the ...
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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 close to
...
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 close to
...
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As a writer of fiction I go back , through innumerable generations , to the teller of
tales round the fire in the cavern that sheltered neolithic men . I have had some
sort of story to tell and it has interested me to tell it . To me it has been a sufficient
...
As a writer of fiction I go back , through innumerable generations , to the teller of
tales round the fire in the cavern that sheltered neolithic men . I have had some
sort of story to tell and it has interested me to tell it . To me it has been a sufficient
...
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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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