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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Page 69
... novelists began to disclose the diversity that they had found in themselves or seen in others they were accused of maligning the human race . So far as I know the first novelist who did this with deliberate intention was Stendhal in Le ...
... novelists began to disclose the diversity that they had found in themselves or seen in others they were accused of maligning the human race . So far as I know the first novelist who did this with deliberate intention was Stendhal in Le ...
Page 112
... novelist . So I put the drama aside and set myself to writing fiction . The reader may think that this methodical fashion of going to work was unbecom- ingly businesslike in a young author . It suggests a matter - of - fact turn of mind ...
... novelist . So I put the drama aside and set myself to writing fiction . The reader may think that this methodical fashion of going to work was unbecom- ingly businesslike in a young author . It suggests a matter - of - fact turn of mind ...
Page 220
... novelist is the essayist , and that the only perfect short stories have been written by Charles Lamb and Hazlitt . But the delight in listening to stories is as natural to human nature as the delight in looking at the danc- ing and ...
... novelist is the essayist , and that the only perfect short stories have been written by Charles Lamb and Hazlitt . But the delight in listening to stories is as natural to human nature as the delight in looking at the danc- ing and ...
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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