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 was ambitious to make a name for myself as a writer . I exposed myself to every vicissitude that seemed to offer a chance of gaining the greater experience that I wanted and I read everything [ 73 ] THE SUMMING UP.
I was ambitious to make a name for myself as a writer . I exposed myself to every vicissitude that seemed to offer a chance of gaining the greater experience that I wanted and I read everything [ 73 ] THE SUMMING UP.
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When you consider the mental content of what these authors had to offer , you can , unless you are but ill educated , hardly fail to see that it consisted of no more than the common culture of the day . Shaw's ideas were expressed with ...
When you consider the mental content of what these authors had to offer , you can , unless you are but ill educated , hardly fail to see that it consisted of no more than the common culture of the day . Shaw's ideas were expressed with ...
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... much more sig . nificant and so offered a better subject of discourse than the novel of character or adventure . ... have since then given most of their attention to the writers who seemed to offer something new in technique [ 216 ] ...
... much more sig . nificant and so offered a better subject of discourse than the novel of character or adventure . ... have since then given most of their attention to the writers who seemed to offer something new in technique [ 216 ] ...
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| Title | The Summing Up Volume 10 of Collected edition of the works of W. Somerset Maugham W. Somerset Maugham Works 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 |
| Subjects | › Fiction / Literary |
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