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This sort of story , one of about twelve thousand words , gave me ample room to develop my theme , but forced upon ... It was unlucky for me that I set about writing short stories seriously when the better - class writers in England and ...
This sort of story , one of about twelve thousand words , gave me ample room to develop my theme , but forced upon ... It was unlucky for me that I set about writing short stories seriously when the better - class writers in England and ...
Page 148
I wanted to write stories that proceeded , tightly knit , in an unbroken line from the exposition to the conclusion . I saw the short story as a narrative of a single event , material or spiritual , to which by the elimination of ...
I wanted to write stories that proceeded , tightly knit , in an unbroken line from the exposition to the conclusion . I saw the short story as a narrative of a single event , material or spiritual , to which by the elimination of ...
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I have had some sort of story to tell and it has interested me to tell it . To me it has been a sufficient object in itself . It has been my misfortune that for some time now a story has been despised by the intelligent .
I have had some sort of story to tell and it has interested me to tell it . To me it has been a sufficient object in itself . It has been my misfortune that for some time now a story has been despised by the intelligent .
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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