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Page 131
It has given them its satisfaction and now their souls are open to a new impregnation . In the production of his work , the author has fulfilled himself . But that is not to say that it has any value for anyone else .
It has given them its satisfaction and now their souls are open to a new impregnation . In the production of his work , the author has fulfilled himself . But that is not to say that it has any value for anyone else .
Page 148
I saw the short story as a narrative of a single event , material or spiritual , to which by the elimination of everything that was not essential to its elucidation a dramatic unity could be given . I had no fear of what is technically ...
I saw the short story as a narrative of a single event , material or spiritual , to which by the elimination of everything that was not essential to its elucidation a dramatic unity could be given . I had no fear of what is technically ...
Page 153
A bit of love- making thrown in here and there made the information they were given sufficiently palatable . The novel was regarded as a convenient pulpit for the dissemination of ideas and a good many novelists were willing enough to ...
A bit of love- making thrown in here and there made the information they were given sufficiently palatable . The novel was regarded as a convenient pulpit for the dissemination of ideas and a good many novelists were willing enough to ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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