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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... told the driver to stop and seized his gun . " I'm going to have a shot at it . " My heart stopped still . He fired , and I hoped he'd miss , but he didn't . The driver jumped out of the car and brought back the dead bird which a mo ...
... told the driver to stop and seized his gun . " I'm going to have a shot at it . " My heart stopped still . He fired , and I hoped he'd miss , but he didn't . The driver jumped out of the car and brought back the dead bird which a mo ...
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... told me that no one took any notice . He also told me that my grandfather was the ugliest little man he ever saw . I went once to the building of the Incor- porated Society in Chancery Lane to see for myself if he was really so ugly as ...
... told me that no one took any notice . He also told me that my grandfather was the ugliest little man he ever saw . I went once to the building of the Incor- porated Society in Chancery Lane to see for myself if he was really so ugly as ...
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... told a friend that in due course I should be one of the most successful dramatists of the day . I suppose he saw in it direct- ness and an effective way of presenting a scene that suggested a sense of the theatre . My language was ...
... told a friend that in due course I should be one of the most successful dramatists of the day . I suppose he saw in it direct- ness and an effective way of presenting a scene that suggested a sense of the theatre . My language was ...
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accept action actors admire ęsthetic amusing appearance artist asked audience beauty believe better character comedy common conscious course critic deal delight dialogue discover drama dramatist effect emotion English evil exciting existence experience feeling fiction forced French gave gift give Henry Arthur Jones Human Bondage 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