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 179
It is true that the amateur may sometimes produce a work of merit . By a lucky ...
The literature of a country is made not by a few excellent books , I repeat , but by
a great body of work , and this can only be produced by professional writers .
It is true that the amateur may sometimes produce a work of merit . By a lucky ...
The literature of a country is made not by a few excellent books , I repeat , but by
a great body of work , and this can only be produced by professional writers .
Page 180
The literature of those countries that has been produced chiefly by amateurs is
thin in comparison with that of the countries in which a number of men , with
difficulty trying to make their living , have followed it as a profession . A body of
work ...
The literature of those countries that has been produced chiefly by amateurs is
thin in comparison with that of the countries in which a number of men , with
difficulty trying to make their living , have followed it as a profession . A body of
work ...
Page 196
There seemed nothing much for me to do at the moment , so I went to America
where two of my plays were about to be produced . I wanted to recover my peace
of mind shattered through my own foolishness and vanity by occurrences upon ...
There seemed nothing much for me to do at the moment , so I went to America
where two of my plays were about to be produced . I wanted to recover my peace
of mind shattered through my own foolishness and vanity by occurrences upon ...
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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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