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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... Sometimes Maugham's irony is more carefully and consciously balanced : " I do not think a thought of self ever entered her untidy head . She was a miracle of unselfishness . It was really hardly human . " Sometimes it is frankly comic ...
... Sometimes Maugham's irony is more carefully and consciously balanced : " I do not think a thought of self ever entered her untidy head . She was a miracle of unselfishness . It was really hardly human . " Sometimes it is frankly comic ...
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... Sometimes the stress of circumstances is too great for him and with rage in his heart he yields to the demand of the public . One must not expect too much of human nature and an occasional pot - boiler may be accepted from him with ...
... Sometimes the stress of circumstances is too great for him and with rage in his heart he yields to the demand of the public . One must not expect too much of human nature and an occasional pot - boiler may be accepted from him with ...
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... Sometimes he has flaunted his difference from what he was inclined to call the common herd by wil- ful eccentricity and to épater le bourgeois has pa- raded the red waistcoat of Théophile Gautier or , like Gérard de Nerval , led a ...
... Sometimes he has flaunted his difference from what he was inclined to call the common herd by wil- ful eccentricity and to épater le bourgeois has pa- raded the red waistcoat of Théophile Gautier or , like Gérard de Nerval , led a ...
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