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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Page 129
The drama pictures the manners and customs of the day , and in its turn affects
them , and as these change minor changes follow both in the trappings of a play
and in its themes . The invention of the telephone , for instance , has made many
...
The drama pictures the manners and customs of the day , and in its turn affects
them , and as these change minor changes follow both in the trappings of a play
and in its themes . The invention of the telephone , for instance , has made many
...
Page 251
The free man had no reason to follow them except in so far as they suited his
convenience . Having then an epigrammatic turn , and epigrams being the
fashion , I put my conviction into a phrase and said to myself : follow your
inclinations with ...
The free man had no reason to follow them except in so far as they suited his
convenience . Having then an epigrammatic turn , and epigrams being the
fashion , I put my conviction into a phrase and said to myself : follow your
inclinations with ...
Page 310
To follow it does not look so difficult that human weakness quails before it as
beyond its strength . With it I can end my book . The beauty of life , he says , is
nothing but this , that each should act in conformity with his nature and his
business .
To follow it does not look so difficult that human weakness quails before it as
beyond its strength . With it I can end my book . The beauty of life , he says , is
nothing but this , that each should act in conformity with his nature and his
business .
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Bibliographic information
| 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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