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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... novels , Of Human Bondage is taken by many people to be Maugham's masterpiece , his " one great novel , " according to Malcolm Cowley , who speculated on what he called the Somerset Maugham enig- ma : " Why has he never written another ...
... novels , Of Human Bondage is taken by many people to be Maugham's masterpiece , his " one great novel , " according to Malcolm Cowley , who speculated on what he called the Somerset Maugham enig- ma : " Why has he never written another ...
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... novel I wrote was called Liza of Lam- beth . It was accepted by the first publisher to whom I sent it . For some time Fisher Unwin had been bringing out in what he called The Pseudonym Series a number of short novels which had attracted ...
... novel I wrote was called Liza of Lam- beth . It was accepted by the first publisher to whom I sent it . For some time Fisher Unwin had been bringing out in what he called The Pseudonym Series a number of short novels which had attracted ...
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... novel . But it is evident that while its vogue lasted it seemed much more sig- nificant and so offered a better subject of discourse than the novel of character or adventure . The intelligent critics , the more serious novel read- ers ...
... novel . But it is evident that while its vogue lasted it seemed much more sig- nificant and so offered a better subject of discourse than the novel of character or adventure . The intelligent critics , the more serious novel read- ers ...
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