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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I have never even sung a hymn . I do not much like being touched and I have always to make a slight effort over myself not to draw away when someone links his arm in mine . I can never forget myself . The hysteria of the world repels me ...
I have never even sung a hymn . I do not much like being touched and I have always to make a slight effort over myself not to draw away when someone links his arm in mine . I can never forget myself . The hysteria of the world repels me ...
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sey but in English and I have never achieved my ambition to read A Thousand Nights and a Night in Arabic . When the intelligentsia took up Russia I , remembering that Cato had begun to learn Greek when he was eighty , set about learning ...
sey but in English and I have never achieved my ambition to read A Thousand Nights and a Night in Arabic . When the intelligentsia took up Russia I , remembering that Cato had begun to learn Greek when he was eighty , set about learning ...
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XXX I was never stage - struck . I have known dramatists who wandered in every night to the theatre in which their play was being acted . They said they did it in order to see that the cast was not getting slack : I suspect it was ...
XXX I was never stage - struck . I have known dramatists who wandered in every night to the theatre in which their play was being acted . They said they did it in order to see that the cast was not getting slack : I suspect it was ...
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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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