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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... took me more literally than I intended . When she brought back the typescript on Monday morning it was accompanied by four foolscap sheets of correc- tions . I must confess that at the first glance I was a trifle vexed ; but then I ...
... took me more literally than I intended . When she brought back the typescript on Monday morning it was accompanied by four foolscap sheets of correc- tions . I must confess that at the first glance I was a trifle vexed ; but then I ...
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... took all this to - do as nat- ural . One evening when I was dining alone at my club a fellow member , but a stranger to me , was en- tertaining a guest at the next table to mine ; they were going to one of my plays and began to talk of ...
... took all this to - do as nat- ural . One evening when I was dining alone at my club a fellow member , but a stranger to me , was en- tertaining a guest at the next table to mine ; they were going to one of my plays and began to talk of ...
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... took a more modest view of their functions than they have lately done . Then they confined themselves to cutting where the author had been long - winded and disguising by their in- genuity his errors of construction ; they arranged the ...
... took a more modest view of their functions than they have lately done . Then they confined themselves to cutting where the author had been long - winded and disguising by their in- genuity his errors of construction ; they arranged the ...
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accept action actors admire æsthetic amusing appearance artist asked audience beauty believe better character comedy common conscious course critic deal delight dialogue discover drama dramatist emotion English evil exciting existence experience feeling fiction forced French gave gift give Henry Arthur Jones Human Bondage human nature 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