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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Passing the Comedy Theatre I happened to look up and saw the clouds lit by the
setting sun . I paused to look at the lovely sight and I thought to myself : Thank
God , I can look at a sunset now without having to think how to describe it . I
meant ...
Passing the Comedy Theatre I happened to look up and saw the clouds lit by the
setting sun . I paused to look at the lovely sight and I thought to myself : Thank
God , I can look at a sunset now without having to think how to describe it . I
meant ...
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who were at their prime before the war look upon those years as did the survivors
of the French Revolution when they look back on the Ancien Régime . They will
not know the douceur de vivre . We live now on the eve of great revolutions .
who were at their prime before the war look upon those years as did the survivors
of the French Revolution when they look back on the Ancien Régime . They will
not know the douceur de vivre . We live now on the eve of great revolutions .
Page 308
When I look back on my life , with its successes and its failures , its endless errors
, its deceptions and its fulfilments , its joys and miseries , it seems to me strangely
lacking in reality . It is shadowy and unsubstantial . It may [ 308 ] THE ...
When I look back on my life , with its successes and its failures , its endless errors
, its deceptions and its fulfilments , its joys and miseries , it seems to me strangely
lacking in reality . It is shadowy and unsubstantial . It may [ 308 ] THE ...
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| 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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