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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... invention and praised what was good . It must be a fault in me that I am not gravely shocked at the sins of others unless they personally affect me , and even when they do I have learnt at last generally to excuse them . It is meet not ...
... invention and praised what was good . It must be a fault in me that I am not gravely shocked at the sins of others unless they personally affect me , and even when they do I have learnt at last generally to excuse them . It is meet not ...
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... invention . Ibsen as we know had a meagre power of invention ; his characters under different names are [ 132 ] THE SUMMING UP.
... invention . Ibsen as we know had a meagre power of invention ; his characters under different names are [ 132 ] THE SUMMING UP.
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... invention . It was a clever and amusing trick , but nothing more . When writers , instead of using it as an occasional device for a par- ticular purpose , ironical , dramatic or explanatory , made it the basis of their work it proved ...
... invention . It was a clever and amusing trick , but nothing more . When writers , instead of using it as an occasional device for a par- ticular purpose , ironical , dramatic or explanatory , made it the basis of their work it proved ...
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accept action actors admire ęsthetic amusing appearance artist asked audience beauty believe better character comedy common conscious course critic deal delight dialogue discover drama dramatist effect emotion English evil exciting existence experience feeling fiction forced French gave gift give Henry Arthur Jones Human Bondage 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