The Summing Up |
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It would be difficult to find on the English stage a more competent . intelligent and versatile actor . On the other hand , I have had plays produced in which I was con- scious that the audience were not seeing anything like what I ...
It would be difficult to find on the English stage a more competent . intelligent and versatile actor . On the other hand , I have had plays produced in which I was con- scious that the audience were not seeing anything like what I ...
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It is the most difficult thing the writer has to cope with . When after a long and bitter struggle he has at last achieved it he finds that it spreads a snare to entangle and destroy him . Few of us have the determi- nation to avoid its ...
It is the most difficult thing the writer has to cope with . When after a long and bitter struggle he has at last achieved it he finds that it spreads a snare to entangle and destroy him . Few of us have the determi- nation to avoid its ...
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And such is the diversity of opinion that it is very difficult for an author to arrive at any conclusion about his merit . In England there is a natural tendency to despise the novel . The autobiography of an insignificant politician ...
And such is the diversity of opinion that it is very difficult for an author to arrive at any conclusion about his merit . In England there is a natural tendency to despise the novel . The autobiography of an insignificant politician ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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