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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He is present to the reader , an engaging , even a compelling 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 ...
He is present to the reader , an engaging , even a compelling 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 ...
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paper , and it was not till four years after I had made my notes for it that I wrote the
first of the stories I had conceived in the ... The first story I wrote now was called
Rain and it looked for a while as though I should have no better luck with it than ...
paper , and it was not till four years after I had made my notes for it that I wrote the
first of the stories I had conceived in the ... The first story I wrote now was called
Rain and it looked for a while as though I should have no better luck with it than ...
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I have had some sort of story to tell and it has interested me to tell it . To me it has
been a sufficient object in itself . It has been my misfortune that for some time now
a story has been despised by the intelligent . I have read a good many books ...
I have had some sort of story to tell and it has interested me to tell it . To me it has
been a sufficient object in itself . It has been my misfortune that for some time now
a story has been despised by the intelligent . I have read a good many books ...
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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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