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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... ness . Of Maugham's other novels , The Moon and Sixpence , The Painted Veil and The Razor's Edge are the most successful , although all three of them tend to alternate between masterly scenes and moments of glibness . But then even ...
... ness . Of Maugham's other novels , The Moon and Sixpence , The Painted Veil and The Razor's Edge are the most successful , although all three of them tend to alternate between masterly scenes and moments of glibness . But then even ...
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... ness and an effective way of presenting a scene that suggested a sense of the theatre . My language was commonplace , my vocabulary limited , my grammar shaky and my phrases hackneyed . But to write was an instinct that seemed as ...
... ness and an effective way of presenting a scene that suggested a sense of the theatre . My language was commonplace , my vocabulary limited , my grammar shaky and my phrases hackneyed . But to write was an instinct that seemed as ...
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... ness that the demands of the world of sense have an- other validity . To the writer this is not so . The images , free ideas that throng his mind , are not guides but materials for action . They have all the vividness of sensation . His ...
... ness that the demands of the world of sense have an- other validity . To the writer this is not so . The images , free ideas that throng his mind , are not guides but materials for action . They have all the vividness of sensation . His ...
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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