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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I 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 filled the four neat pages of foolscap were incisive ...
I 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 filled the four neat pages of foolscap were incisive ...
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I was 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 ...
I was 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 ...
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It seems to have escaped the attention of those who have been taken by these curious 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 ...
It seems to have escaped the attention of those who have been taken by these curious 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 ...
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| Title | The Summing Up Volume 10 of Collected edition of the works of W. Somerset Maugham 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 |
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