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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Page 165
... young author could hope to write with success . For he could not have sufficient experience of life to write of contemporary manners ; history provided him with a story and characters and the romantic fervour of his young blood gave him ...
... young author could hope to write with success . For he could not have sufficient experience of life to write of contemporary manners ; history provided him with a story and characters and the romantic fervour of his young blood gave him ...
Page 171
... young men now I cannot but see that theirs are vastly more accomplished . The ageing writer does well to keep in touch with what the young do and from time to time I read their novels . Girls still in their teens , youths at the ...
... young men now I cannot but see that theirs are vastly more accomplished . The ageing writer does well to keep in touch with what the young do and from time to time I read their novels . Girls still in their teens , youths at the ...
Page 286
... young enter upon life now with advantages that were denied to the young of my generation . They are hampered by fewer con- ventions and they have learnt how great is the value of youth . The world of my twenties was a middle- aged world ...
... young enter upon life now with advantages that were denied to the young of my generation . They are hampered by fewer con- ventions and they have learnt how great is the value of youth . The world of my twenties was a middle- aged world ...
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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