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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... present to the reader , an engaging , even a com- pelling story - teller it is very hard to put down a Maugham story or novel once you have taken it up - but he is a man who is giving nothing away . Maugham's prose is lucid and musical ...
... present to the reader , an engaging , even a com- pelling story - teller it is very hard to put down a Maugham story or novel once you have taken it up - but he is a man who is giving nothing away . Maugham's prose is lucid and musical ...
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... of writing , which is the consuming interest of his present life . The book opens with a cruel portrait of Maugham's friends Hugh Walpole , but the portrait is also a mocking version of Maugham himself as the successful.
... of writing , which is the consuming interest of his present life . The book opens with a cruel portrait of Maugham's friends Hugh Walpole , but the portrait is also a mocking version of Maugham himself as the successful.
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... present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now . But common sense avails me little . I do not find the present unsatisfactory ; I merely take it for granted . It is interwoven in the pattern and what interests me is what ...
... present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now . But common sense avails me little . I do not find the present unsatisfactory ; I merely take it for granted . It is interwoven in the pattern and what interests me is what ...
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