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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Page 108
... civilized world of the eighteenth century the actors gave life a touch of fantasy .
Their disorderly existence was a lure to the imagination in the Age of Reason and
the heroic parts they played , the verse they spoke , invested them with a halo .
... civilized world of the eighteenth century the actors gave life a touch of fantasy .
Their disorderly existence was a lure to the imagination in the Age of Reason and
the heroic parts they played , the verse they spoke , invested them with a halo .
Page 164
My lack of imagination ( for imagination grows by exercise and contrary to
common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young ) obliged me to
set down quite straightforwardly what I had seen with my own eyes and heard
with my ...
My lack of imagination ( for imagination grows by exercise and contrary to
common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young ) obliged me to
set down quite straightforwardly what I had seen with my own eyes and heard
with my ...
Page 238
It is close to us in point of time so that with a very small effort of imagination we
can put ourselves into the men who made it . They are almost contemporaries .
And what they did and what they thought affect the lives we lead today ; after a ...
It is close to us in point of time so that with a very small effort of imagination we
can put ourselves into the men who made it . They are almost contemporaries .
And what they did and what they thought affect the lives we lead today ; after a ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Summing Up Volume 10 of Collected edition of the works of W. Somerset Maugham W. Somerset Maugham Works 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 |
| Subjects | › Fiction / Literary |
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