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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... suggested . I might well say that they invented their own stories ... I knew that I had no lyrical quality . I had a ... suggesting exotic locations without brandishing foreign names or going in for that rather flashy familiarity with ...
... suggested . I might well say that they invented their own stories ... I knew that I had no lyrical quality . I had a ... suggesting exotic locations without brandishing foreign names or going in for that rather flashy familiarity with ...
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... suggested his characters ; Dickens , as we all know , portrayed his father in Mr Micawber and Leigh Hunt in Harold Skimpole . Turgenev stated that he could not create a character at all unless as a starting point he could fix his ...
... suggested his characters ; Dickens , as we all know , portrayed his father in Mr Micawber and Leigh Hunt in Harold Skimpole . Turgenev stated that he could not create a character at all unless as a starting point he could fix his ...
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... suggested as its oc- casion . It may be that they might have taken other fragments and combined them into another picture . This different world would have been as coherent and as true as the one we imagine we know . It would be ...
... suggested as its oc- casion . It may be that they might have taken other fragments and combined them into another picture . This different world would have been as coherent and as true as the one we imagine we know . It would be ...
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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