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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It is true that contemporary literature has a vividness of appeal that classical literature can never have and it is well for a young writer to know what his contemporaries are writing about and how . But there are fashions in ...
It is true that contemporary literature has a vividness of appeal that classical literature can never have and it is well for a young writer to know what his contemporaries are writing about and how . But there are fashions in ...
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For they , and the literature which is their expression , are wrought , not only of the actions they perform and the words they use , neither of which offer great difficulty , but of ancestral instincts , shades of feeling that they ...
For they , and the literature which is their expression , are wrought , not only of the actions they perform and the words they use , neither of which offer great difficulty , but of ancestral instincts , shades of feeling that they ...
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With standards founded on the literature of the past , and studious of contemporary literature in other countries , he will see clearly the trend that literature in its evolution is pursuing and so be enabled profitably to direct that ...
With standards founded on the literature of the past , and studious of contemporary literature in other countries , he will see clearly the trend that literature in its evolution is pursuing and so be enabled profitably to direct that ...
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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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