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... Human Bondage . The Summing Up is the residue , the background of thought , philosophy , ethics and culture that Maugham has been too much of a gentleman and an artist to intrude into his fiction . It is an account of the education of a ...
... Human Bondage . The Summing Up is the residue , the background of thought , philosophy , ethics and culture that Maugham has been too much of a gentleman and an artist to intrude into his fiction . It is an account of the education of a ...
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... Human Bondage , and turning my wishes into fiction , as writers will , towards the end of it I drew a picture of the marriage I should have liked to make . Readers on the whole have found it the least satisfactory part of my book . But ...
... Human Bondage , and turning my wishes into fiction , as writers will , towards the end of it I drew a picture of the marriage I should have liked to make . Readers on the whole have found it the least satisfactory part of my book . But ...
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