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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... stories . On a Chinese Screen , for example , is a set of jottings which Maugham decided to leave as jottings , but some of them were so close to fiction that he could include them , much later , among his Complete Short Stories ...
... stories . On a Chinese Screen , for example , is a set of jottings which Maugham decided to leave as jottings , but some of them were so close to fiction that he could include them , much later , among his Complete Short Stories ...
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... short story perfection had been sometimes achieved , and though I could scarcely hope to reach it , I had a notion ... stories which together , I thought , would make a volume of a size suitable for this collection and sent them to ...
... short story perfection had been sometimes achieved , and though I could scarcely hope to reach it , I had a notion ... stories which together , I thought , would make a volume of a size suitable for this collection and sent them to ...
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... short stories have been written by Charles Lamb and Hazlitt . But the delight in listening to stories is as natural to human nature as the delight in looking at the danc- ing and miming out of which drama arose . That it exists ...
... short stories have been written by Charles Lamb and Hazlitt . But the delight in listening to stories is as natural to human nature as the delight in looking at the danc- ing and miming out of which drama arose . That it exists ...
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accept action actors admire ęsthetic amusing appearance artist asked audience beauty believe better character comedy common conscious course critic deal delight dialogue discover drama dramatist emotion English evil exciting existence experience feeling fiction forced French gave gift give Henry Arthur Jones Human Bondage human nature humour ideas imagination instinct interest invention King's School knew Lady Frederick literature live Liza of Lambeth look matter Matthew Arnold Maugham means mind ness never notion novel novelist one's Painted Veil pattern perfect perhaps persons philosophers phrase picture play pleasure produced prose reader reason seemed sense short stories SOMERSET MAUGHAM sometimes sort soul spirit St Thomas's Hospital Stendhal success suppose tell theatre things thought tion told truth V. S. Pritchett verse Walter Pater wanted words write written wrote young youth