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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... matter , if only be- cause they involve larger and more sustained excursions away from the pose of the casual story - teller . Maugham's plays are skillful and intelli- gent , but even the best of them Our Betters , The Circle , The Con ...
... matter , if only be- cause they involve larger and more sustained excursions away from the pose of the casual story - teller . Maugham's plays are skillful and intelli- gent , but even the best of them Our Betters , The Circle , The Con ...
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... matter , which is the destiny of man , wonderfully fits the baroque splen- dour of the language , and here the Norwich doctor produced a piece of prose that has never been sur- passed in our literature ; but when he describes the ...
... matter , which is the destiny of man , wonderfully fits the baroque splen- dour of the language , and here the Norwich doctor produced a piece of prose that has never been sur- passed in our literature ; but when he describes the ...
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... matter a little plainer . I have known intimately a great many persons who were absorbed in the arts . I am afraid that neither from them nor from books have I learnt much that greatly profited me . One of the most curious things that ...
... matter a little plainer . I have known intimately a great many persons who were absorbed in the arts . I am afraid that neither from them nor from books have I learnt much that greatly profited me . One of the most curious things that ...
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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 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
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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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