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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... passing moment . He was the first of the rococo artists . If Swift reminds you of a French canal Dryden recalls an ... passed that I set out again to write a novel . By then I no longer had any ambition to be a stylist ; I put aside ...
... passing moment . He was the first of the rococo artists . If Swift reminds you of a French canal Dryden recalls an ... passed that I set out again to write a novel . By then I no longer had any ambition to be a stylist ; I put aside ...
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... passing moment might linger so that I could get more enjoyment from it , for even when it has brought me something I had immensely looked for- ward to , my imagination in the very moment of ful- filment has been busy with the ...
... passing moment might linger so that I could get more enjoyment from it , for even when it has brought me something I had immensely looked for- ward to , my imagination in the very moment of ful- filment has been busy with the ...
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... passed judgment , ignored me , but I was securely fixed in the public favour . xxxiv From time to time I had a good ... passing the time . I wrote a series of plays in quick succession . It began with Our Betters , which was written in ...
... passed judgment , ignored me , but I was securely fixed in the public favour . xxxiv From time to time I had a good ... passing the time . I wrote a series of plays in quick succession . It began with Our Betters , which was written in ...
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accept action actors admire æsthetic 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