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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... written at least more naturally than anything I had written before ; but I am sure that it is often slipshod and I daresay there are in it a good many mistakes in grammar . Since then I have written many other books ; and though ceasing ...
... written at least more naturally than anything I had written before ; but I am sure that it is often slipshod and I daresay there are in it a good many mistakes in grammar . Since then I have written many other books ; and though ceasing ...
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... writing in dialogue devised to be spoken by actors and heard by an in- definite number of persons . A play written to be read in the study is a form of the novel in dialogue in which the author for some reason of his own ( obscure to ...
... writing in dialogue devised to be spoken by actors and heard by an in- definite number of persons . A play written to be read in the study is a form of the novel in dialogue in which the author for some reason of his own ( obscure to ...
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... written short stories for many years . I began my literary career by writing them and my third book was a collection of six . They were not good . After that I tried now and then to write stories for the maga- zines ; my agents pressed ...
... written short stories for many years . I began my literary career by writing them and my third book was a collection of six . They were not good . After that I tried now and then to write stories for the maga- zines ; my agents pressed ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Summing Up Volume 10 of Collected edition of the works of W. Somerset Maugham 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 |
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