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 124
It is a psychological trait in human nature that interest is established in the
persons whom the playwright introduces at the beginning of his play so firmly that
if the interest is then switched off to other persons who enter upon the scene later
, a ...
It is a psychological trait in human nature that interest is established in the
persons whom the playwright introduces at the beginning of his play so firmly that
if the interest is then switched off to other persons who enter upon the scene later
, a ...
Page 212
Stendhal , in one of his manuscripts , has written the names of the persons who
had suggested his characters ... stated that he could not create a character at all
unless as a starting point he could fix his imagination on a living person . I
suspect ...
Stendhal , in one of his manuscripts , has written the names of the persons who
had suggested his characters ... stated that he could not create a character at all
unless as a starting point he could fix his imagination on a living person . I
suspect ...
Page 213
We know very little even of the persons we know most intimately ; we do not know
them enough to transfer them to the pages of a book and make human beings of
them . People are too elusive , too shadowy , to be copied ; and they are also ...
We know very little even of the persons we know most intimately ; we do not know
them enough to transfer them to the pages of a book and make human beings of
them . People are too elusive , too shadowy , to be copied ; and they are also ...
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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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