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 can you write a play of which the ideas are so significant that they will make the critic of The Times sit up in his stall and at the same time induce the shop - girl in the gallery to forget the young man who ...
How can you write a play of which the ideas are so significant that they will make the critic of The Times sit up in his stall and at the same time induce the shop - girl in the gallery to forget the young man who ...
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Shaw's ideas were expressed with great vivacity . They could only have surprised because the intellectual capacity of the audience was inconsiderable . They surprise no longer ; indeed , the young tend to look on them now as antiquated ...
Shaw's ideas were expressed with great vivacity . They could only have surprised because the intellectual capacity of the audience was inconsiderable . They surprise no longer ; indeed , the young tend to look on them now as antiquated ...
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For though they clamour for the play of ideas , when he presents it to them they sniff at it if the ideas are familiar to them , thinking mod . estly that what they know already is commonplace , and if the ideas are unfamiliar to them ...
For though they clamour for the play of ideas , when he presents it to them they sniff at it if the ideas are familiar to them , thinking mod . estly that what they know already is commonplace , and if the ideas are unfamiliar to them ...
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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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