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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... fiction . Mackintosh , a British administrator in Samoa , so hates his superior that he leaves his gun lying around ... fiction feeds on melodrama , which in turn feeds on acts of violence , but there is in Maugham an insistence on ...
... fiction . Mackintosh , a British administrator in Samoa , so hates his superior that he leaves his gun lying around ... fiction feeds on melodrama , which in turn feeds on acts of violence , but there is in Maugham an insistence on ...
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... 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 fiction that he could ...
... 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 fiction that he could ...
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... fiction I go back , through innumerable generations , to the 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 . To me it has been a ...
... fiction I go back , through innumerable generations , to the 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 . To me it has been a ...
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