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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... tion . Love in Maugham is either a helpless , unconditional surrender to instinct , an undignified collapse of all our best intentions ; or it is a quest for disgrace , an infatuation with a creature we cannot respect and who will bring ...
... tion . Love in Maugham is either a helpless , unconditional surrender to instinct , an undignified collapse of all our best intentions ; or it is a quest for disgrace , an infatuation with a creature we cannot respect and who will bring ...
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... tion is , How good is that ? Maugham himself thought he had only " slend- er baggage " for his journey into posterity , and saw himself as standing " in the very front row of the second - raters . " But then that judgement implies a ...
... tion is , How good is that ? Maugham himself thought he had only " slend- er baggage " for his journey into posterity , and saw himself as standing " in the very front row of the second - raters . " But then that judgement implies a ...
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... tion has betrayed itself . Common experience , espe- cially the common experience of philosophers , shows that a great many men are no great shakes . Im- mortality is too stupendous a notion to be enter- tained in connection with common ...
... tion has betrayed itself . Common experience , espe- cially the common experience of philosophers , shows that a great many men are no great shakes . Im- mortality is too stupendous a notion to be enter- tained in connection with common ...
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