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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... things , which caught people on the raw . " Is that what we usually mean by humor ? Sometimes Maugham's irony is more carefully and consciously balanced : " I do not think a thought of self ever entered her untidy head . She was a ...
... things , which caught people on the raw . " Is that what we usually mean by humor ? Sometimes Maugham's irony is more carefully and consciously balanced : " I do not think a thought of self ever entered her untidy head . She was a ...
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... things our end can no longer be remote . An occasional glance at the obituary column of The Times has suggested to me that the sixties are very unhealthy ; I have long thought that it would exas- perate me to die before I had written ...
... things our end can no longer be remote . An occasional glance at the obituary column of The Times has suggested to me that the sixties are very unhealthy ; I have long thought that it would exas- perate me to die before I had written ...
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... thing was incredible . To audiences who had been forced to sit through plays in which love was the motive of the ... things must be put on the stage in an exaggerated way ( and it should never be forgotten that Shaw is an extremely ...
... thing was incredible . To audiences who had been forced to sit through plays in which love was the motive of the ... things must be put on the stage in an exaggerated way ( and it should never be forgotten that Shaw is an extremely ...
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