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 ...
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 ...
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He can be perfectly sincere in his creative emotion and yet there is someone else within him who is capable of cocking a snook at ... like the gods , to create human beings prevents him from achieving perfect truth in their creation .
He can be perfectly sincere in his creative emotion and yet there is someone else within him who is capable of cocking a snook at ... like the gods , to create human beings prevents him from achieving perfect truth in their creation .
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... in which the earth produces her plenty without excessive labour , where the pleasures and pains of the individual are those incidental to the human race , it has seemed to me that there the perfect life was perfectly realized .
... in which the earth produces her plenty without excessive labour , where the pleasures and pains of the individual are those incidental to the human race , it has seemed to me that there the perfect life was perfectly realized .
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| Title | The Summing Up Volume 10 of Collected edition of the works of W. Somerset Maugham 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 |
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