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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... because it is so fiercely and unfailingly witty , and because Maugham is on his true home ground , talking not about his personal past but about the business of writing , which is the consuming interest of his present life .
... because it is so fiercely and unfailingly witty , and because Maugham is on his true home ground , talking not about his personal past but about the business of writing , which is the consuming interest of his present life .
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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 remains to come . I have made a great many mistakes . I have at times fallen victim to a snare to ...
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 remains to come . I have made a great many mistakes . I have at times fallen victim to a snare to ...
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... of course he had no business to feel , for my apparent kindness was rigidly determined ) he asked me what I would like as a present , I answered without hesitation Herbert Spencer's First Principles . read it with complacency .
... of course he had no business to feel , for my apparent kindness was rigidly determined ) he asked me what I would like as a present , I answered without hesitation Herbert Spencer's First Principles . read it with complacency .
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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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