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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All interpretation , all attempts to say what such a sequence means , are left to us
. Maugham merely records the sequence . In his life and in his writing , Maugham
appears to have found a tone which was a perfect disguise , which kept the ...
All interpretation , all attempts to say what such a sequence means , are left to us
. Maugham merely records the sequence . In his life and in his writing , Maugham
appears to have found a tone which was a perfect disguise , which kept the ...
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It is the perfect audience . After each act the director reads out the remarks he has
jotted down . There is a row with the electrician who , with nothing to do but
attend to his switches , has turned on the wrong ones ; and the author is
indignant ...
It is the perfect audience . After each act the director reads out the remarks he has
jotted down . There is a row with the electrician who , with nothing to do but
attend to his switches , has turned on the wrong ones ; and the author is
indignant ...
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It is a perfect theory ; it has but one defect ; it is unbelievable . When I cherished
the ambition of writing a book on these matters , thinking I must start at the
beginning , I studied epistemology . I found none of the theories that I examined
very ...
It is a perfect theory ; it has but one defect ; it is unbelievable . When I cherished
the ambition of writing a book on these matters , thinking I must start at the
beginning , I studied epistemology . I found none of the theories that I examined
very ...
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Bibliographic information
| 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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