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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developing a sense of humor , and found he had a knack of saying bitter 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 ...
developing a sense of humor , and found he had a knack of saying bitter 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 ...
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We know that all men are mortal ( Socrates was a man ; therefore - and so forth ) ,
but it remains for us little more than a logical premiss till we are forced to
recognize that in the ordinary course of things our end can no longer be remote .
We know that all men are mortal ( Socrates was a man ; therefore - and so forth ) ,
but it remains for us little more than a logical premiss till we are forced to
recognize that in the ordinary course of things our end can no longer be remote .
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Indeed if it were not founded on an accepted legend they would be unanimous in
asserting that such a thing was ... golf , getting on with one's job and all sorts of
other things , it was a welcome relief to come upon a dramatist for whom love was
...
Indeed if it were not founded on an accepted legend they would be unanimous in
asserting that such a thing was ... golf , getting on with one's job and all sorts of
other things , it was a welcome relief to come upon a dramatist for whom love was
...
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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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