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 ... I knew that I had no lyrical quality . I had a small vocabulary and no efforts that I could make to ... Short Stories . Similarly , Maugham's essays and criticism are composed mainly of anecdotes . Maugham looks at his ...
... stories ... I knew that I had no lyrical quality . I had a small vocabulary and no efforts that I could make to ... Short Stories . Similarly , Maugham's essays and criticism are composed mainly of anecdotes . Maugham looks at his ...
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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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... stories I had conceived in the South Seas . I had not written short stories for many years . I began my literary career by writing them and my third book was a collection of six . They were not good . After that I tried now and then to ...
... stories I had conceived in the South Seas . I had not written short stories for many years . I began my literary career by writing them and my third book was a collection of six . They were not good . After that I tried now and then to ...
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