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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... story - teller it is very hard to put down a Maugham story or novel once you have taken it up - but he is a man who is giving nothing away . Maugham's prose is lucid and musical , but above all it is remark- able for what it doesn't say ...
... story - teller it is very hard to put down a Maugham story or novel once you have taken it up - but he is a man who is giving nothing away . Maugham's prose is lucid and musical , but above all it is remark- able for what it doesn't say ...
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... story being told . This is true even of Maugham's non - fiction . His travel books are the notes of a man looking for stories . On a Chinese Screen , for example , is a set of jottings which Maugham decided to leave as jottings , but ...
... story being told . This is true even of Maugham's non - fiction . His travel books are the notes of a man looking for stories . On a Chinese Screen , for example , is a set of jottings which Maugham decided to leave as jottings , but ...
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... story and plot . A plot is merely the pattern on which the story is arranged . ) From these books you would judge that it is only a hindrance to the intelligent author and a concession that he makes to the stupid demands of the public ...
... story and plot . A plot is merely the pattern on which the story is arranged . ) From these books you would judge that it is only a hindrance to the intelligent author and a concession that he makes to the stupid demands of the public ...
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