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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I was young , lusty and energetic ; I wanted fresh air , action , violence , and I found it hard to breathe that dead , heavily scented atmosphere and sit in those hushed rooms in which it was indecorous to speak above a whisper .
I was young , lusty and energetic ; I wanted fresh air , action , violence , and I found it hard to breathe that dead , heavily scented atmosphere and sit in those hushed rooms in which it was indecorous to speak above a whisper .
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I tell you it's a Roman copy and if I tell you a thing it is so ) ; but they were all agreed about this , that they burned with a hard , gemlike flame . I was too shy to tell them that I had written a novel and was halfway through ...
I tell you it's a Roman copy and if I tell you a thing it is so ) ; but they were all agreed about this , that they burned with a hard , gemlike flame . I was too shy to tell them that I had written a novel and was halfway through ...
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It is the difficulty of directing the interest that makes it so hard to write the plays that are known as plays of atmosphere . The best known of them , of course , are Chekhov's . Since the interest is not concentrated on two or three ...
It is the difficulty of directing the interest that makes it so hard to write the plays that are known as plays of atmosphere . The best known of them , of course , are Chekhov's . Since the interest is not concentrated on two or three ...
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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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