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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Among the novels , Of Human Bondage is taken by many people to be Maugham's masterpiece , his “ one great novel , ” according to Malcolm Cowley , who speculated on what he called the Somerset Maugham enigma : “ Why has he never written ...
Among the novels , Of Human Bondage is taken by many people to be Maugham's masterpiece , his “ one great novel , ” according to Malcolm Cowley , who speculated on what he called the Somerset Maugham enigma : “ Why has he never written ...
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I suppose that you can learn a good deal about 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 ...
I suppose that you can learn a good deal about 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 ...
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We know very little even of the persons we know most intimately ; we do not know them enough to transfer them to the pages of a book and make human beings of them . People are too elusive , too shadowy , to be copied ; and they are also ...
We know very little even of the persons we know most intimately ; we do not know them enough to transfer them to the pages of a book and make human beings of them . People are too elusive , too shadowy , to be copied ; and they are also ...
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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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