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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... turn a sort of infection by strange places and lone- liness . Maugham writes of England too , of course , of country houses and upper - class London and the more respectable fringes of the literary life , but the constant feature of ...
... turn a sort of infection by strange places and lone- liness . Maugham writes of England too , of course , of country houses and upper - class London and the more respectable fringes of the literary life , but the constant feature of ...
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... turn feeds on acts of violence , but there is in Maugham an insistence on retaliation which goes well beyond the needs of the kind of fiction he is writing . There is a recurring pleasure in the sight of an enmity or a rancour which is ...
... turn feeds on acts of violence , but there is in Maugham an insistence on retaliation which goes well beyond the needs of the kind of fiction he is writing . There is a recurring pleasure in the sight of an enmity or a rancour which is ...
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... turn my attention to the writers of the Augustan Period . The prose of Swift enchanted me . I made up my mind that ... turns of phrase or high- flown images . It is a civilized prose , natural , discreet and pointed . There is no ...
... turn my attention to the writers of the Augustan Period . The prose of Swift enchanted me . I made up my mind that ... turns of phrase or high- flown images . It is a civilized prose , natural , discreet and pointed . There is no ...
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