The Summing Up |
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Page 49
When novelists began to disclose the diversity that they had found in themselves or seen in others they were accused of maligning the human race . So far as I know the first novelist who did this with deliberate intention . was Stendhal ...
When novelists began to disclose the diversity that they had found in themselves or seen in others they were accused of maligning the human race . So far as I know the first novelist who did this with deliberate intention . was Stendhal ...
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The novelist should know something about the great issues that occupy men , who are his topics , but it is generally enough if he knows a litle . He must avoid pedantry at all costs . But even at that the field is vast and I have tried ...
The novelist should know something about the great issues that occupy men , who are his topics , but it is generally enough if he knows a litle . He must avoid pedantry at all costs . But even at that the field is vast and I have tried ...
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I got it into my head , I think from the fact that George Moore's Strike at Arlingford was done by the Independent Theatre , that my only chance of being acted was by making a reputation for myself as a novelist .
I got it into my head , I think from the fact that George Moore's Strike at Arlingford was done by the Independent Theatre , that my only chance of being acted was by making a reputation for myself as a novelist .
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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