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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... taken and so sat me down to examine them . I suppose the young woman had taken a course at a secretarial college and she had gone through my novel in the same methodical way as her masters had gone through her essays . The remarks that ...
... taken and so sat me down to examine them . I suppose the young woman had taken a course at a secretarial college and she had gone through my novel in the same methodical way as her masters had gone through her essays . The remarks that ...
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... taken aback and a trifle mortified , but I bore my disgrace with fortitude , for I knew it was not the end of the story . I had desired a certain end and had taken what I thought were the only possible means to attain it ; I could only ...
... taken aback and a trifle mortified , but I bore my disgrace with fortitude , for I knew it was not the end of the story . I had desired a certain end and had taken what I thought were the only possible means to attain it ; I could only ...
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... taken by these curi- ous experiments that the matter treated of in the books in which they are made use of is of an extreme triviality . It almost looks as though their authors had been driven to these contrivances by an uneasy ...
... taken by these curi- ous experiments that the matter treated of in the books in which they are made use of is of an extreme triviality . It almost looks as though their authors had been driven to these contrivances by an uneasy ...
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accept action actors admire æsthetic 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