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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... their new - won sexual freedom had so altered men's views on the importance
of chastity that jealousy was no longer a ... an audience because the nature of the
audience is for the dramatist the most important of the conventions within which ...
... their new - won sexual freedom had so altered men's views on the importance
of chastity that jealousy was no longer a ... an audience because the nature of the
audience is for the dramatist the most important of the conventions within which ...
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years in every form of technical experiment in the arts points to the fact that our
civilization is crumbling ; the subjects that seemed important to the nineteenth
century have lost their interest , and artists do not yet see what the great issues
are ...
years in every form of technical experiment in the arts points to the fact that our
civilization is crumbling ; the subjects that seemed important to the nineteenth
century have lost their interest , and artists do not yet see what the great issues
are ...
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He must be great enough to recognize with good - humoured resignation that his
work , though so important , can have but an ephemeral value ; for his merit is
that he responds to the needs of , and points the way to , his own generation .
He must be great enough to recognize with good - humoured resignation that his
work , though so important , can have but an ephemeral value ; for his merit is
that he responds to the needs of , and points the way to , his own generation .
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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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