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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... Human Bondage ? " The short answer , I would say , is that he has , and several of them at that . Of Human Bondage is a patient and precise ac- count of a boy's growing up , and the story of Philip Carey's tortured , grovelling love for ...
... Human Bondage ? " The short answer , I would say , is that he has , and several of them at that . Of Human Bondage is a patient and precise ac- count of a boy's growing up , and the story of Philip Carey's tortured , grovelling love for ...
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... human nature in a solicitor's office ; but there on the whole you have to deal with men in full control of themselves . They lie perhaps as much as they lie to the doctor , but they lie more consistently , and it may be that for the ...
... human nature in a solicitor's office ; but there on the whole you have to deal with men in full control of themselves . They lie perhaps as much as they lie to the doctor , but they lie more consistently , and it may be that for the ...
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... human beings of them . People are too elusive , too shadowy , to be copied ; and they are also too incoherent and ... human nature and his native in- tuition . The whole business would be plain sailing if it were not for the ...
... human beings of them . People are too elusive , too shadowy , to be copied ; and they are also too incoherent and ... human nature and his native in- tuition . The whole business would be plain sailing if it were not for the ...
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Bibliographic information
| 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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