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 123
... interest . It is important in a novel too , but here greater space permits of greater latitude and , just as according to the idealists evil is transformed into the perfect good of the Absolute , so certain digressions may take their ...
... interest . It is important in a novel too , but here greater space permits of greater latitude and , just as according to the idealists evil is transformed into the perfect good of the Absolute , so certain digressions may take their ...
Page 124
... interest is established in the persons whom the playwright introduces at the be- ginning of his play so firmly that if the interest is then switched off to other persons who enter upon the scene later , a sense of disappointment ensues ...
... interest is established in the persons whom the playwright introduces at the be- ginning of his play so firmly that if the interest is then switched off to other persons who enter upon the scene later , a sense of disappointment ensues ...
Page 222
... interest . That is possibly the most im- portant thing in fiction , for it is by direction of inter- est that the author carries the reader along from page to page and it is by direction of interest that he induces in him the mood he ...
... interest . That is possibly the most im- portant thing in fiction , for it is by direction of inter- est that the author carries the reader along from page to page and it is by direction of interest that he induces in him the mood he ...
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accept action actors admire æsthetic amusing appearance artist asked audience beauty believe better character comedy common conscious course critic deal delight dialogue discover drama dramatist emotion English evil exciting existence experience feeling fiction forced French gave gift give Henry Arthur Jones Human Bondage human nature humour ideas imagination instinct interest invention King's School knew Lady Frederick literature live Liza of Lambeth look matter Matthew Arnold Maugham means mind ness never notion novel novelist one's Painted Veil pattern perfect perhaps persons philosophers phrase picture play pleasure produced prose reader reason seemed sense short stories SOMERSET MAUGHAM sometimes sort soul spirit St Thomas's Hospital Stendhal success suppose tell theatre things thought tion told truth V. S. Pritchett verse Walter Pater wanted words write written wrote young youth