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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... could say Maugham was “ a half - trashy novelist , who writes badly , but is
patronised by halfserious readers , who do ... who could hardly be called a half -
serious reader , saw mainly the scepticism , and insisted on Maugham's
continuing ...
... could say Maugham was “ a half - trashy novelist , who writes badly , but is
patronised by halfserious readers , who do ... who could hardly be called a half -
serious reader , saw mainly the scepticism , and insisted on Maugham's
continuing ...
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From time to time they will doubtless find a critic in search of a subject to write an
article about them , which may cause readers here and there to get out one or
other of their books from a library ; but I think it is clear that neither of them wrote ...
From time to time they will doubtless find a critic in search of a subject to write an
article about them , which may cause readers here and there to get out one or
other of their books from a library ; but I think it is clear that neither of them wrote ...
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It is a line to direct the reader's interest . That is possibly the most important thing
in fiction , for it is by direction of interest that the author carries the reader along
from page to page and it is by direction of interest that he induces in him the
mood ...
It is a line to direct the reader's interest . That is possibly the most important thing
in fiction , for it is by direction of interest that the author carries the reader along
from page to page and it is by direction of interest that he induces in him the
mood ...
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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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