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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How difficult it is for him then to move freely still in the circles with which he has been familiar and which have given him his subjects ! His success has changed him in the eyes of his old associates and they are no longer at home ...
How difficult it is for him then to move freely still in the circles with which he has been familiar and which have given him his subjects ! His success has changed him in the eyes of his old associates and they are no longer at home ...
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have nothing much to do with the theme , have given them a peculiar sense of reality . It is this , however , that has given the French an acute sense of discomfort . The sermons that Henry James preached to the English on form in the ...
have nothing much to do with the theme , have given them a peculiar sense of reality . It is this , however , that has given the French an acute sense of discomfort . The sermons that Henry James preached to the English on form in the ...
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A bit of lovemaking thrown in here and there made the information they were given sufficiently palatable . The novel was regarded as a convenient pulpit for the dissemination of ideas and a good many novelists were willing enough to ...
A bit of lovemaking thrown in here and there made the information they were given sufficiently palatable . The novel was regarded as a convenient pulpit for the dissemination of ideas and a good many novelists were willing enough to ...
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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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