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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But she was a conscientious young person and she took me more literally than I
intended . When she brought back the typescript on Monday morning it was
accompanied by four foolscap sheets of corrections . I must confess that at the
first ...
But she was a conscientious young person and she took me more literally than I
intended . When she brought back the typescript on Monday morning it was
accompanied by four foolscap sheets of corrections . I must confess that at the
first ...
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... so now I took all this to - do as natural . One evening when I was dining alone
at my club a fellow member , but a stranger to me , was entertaining a guest at the
next table to mine ; they were going to one of my plays and began to talk of me .
... so now I took all this to - do as natural . One evening when I was dining alone
at my club a fellow member , but a stranger to me , was entertaining a guest at the
next table to mine ; they were going to one of my plays and began to talk of me .
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When I first began to write for the stage , directors 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
ingenuity his ...
When I first began to write for the stage , directors 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
ingenuity his ...
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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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