A Writer's NotebookFilled with keen observations, autobiographical notes, and the seeds of many of Maugham's greatest works, A Writer's Notebook is a unique and exhilarating look into a great writer's mind at work. From nearly five decades, Somerset Maugham recorded an intimate journal. In it we see the budding of his incomparable vision and his remarkable career as a writer. Covering the years from his time as a youthful medical student in London to a seasoned world traveler around the world, it is playful, sharp witted, and always revealing. Undoubtedly one of his most significant works, A Writer's Notebook is a must for Maugham fans and anyone interested in the creative process. |
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Page ix
... English literature , and gave up his project when he discovered that a very eminent novelist , the first one he saw , had never read a single book of Kipling's . English writers judge their fellow craftsmen ; one they will tell you is ...
... English literature , and gave up his project when he discovered that a very eminent novelist , the first one he saw , had never read a single book of Kipling's . English writers judge their fellow craftsmen ; one they will tell you is ...
Page x
... English author would submit himself to the excruciating boredom of sitting for hours while a fellow novelist read him his latest work . In France it seems to be an understood thing that he should , and what is stranger , even eminent ...
... English author would submit himself to the excruciating boredom of sitting for hours while a fellow novelist read him his latest work . In France it seems to be an understood thing that he should , and what is stranger , even eminent ...
Page xi
... English fellow craftsmen . There is another reason why the antagonisms of authors in France are more envenomed than in England ; their public is too small to support their great number : we have a public of two hundred millions ; they ...
... English fellow craftsmen . There is another reason why the antagonisms of authors in France are more envenomed than in England ; their public is too small to support their great number : we have a public of two hundred millions ; they ...
Page 4
... English classics in a light amateurish manner . He admired George Meredith and was scornful of the three - volume novel . He became a diligent reader of the weekly sixpennies , of the literary monthlies and the quarterlies . He went a ...
... English classics in a light amateurish manner . He admired George Meredith and was scornful of the three - volume novel . He became a diligent reader of the weekly sixpennies , of the literary monthlies and the quarterlies . He went a ...
Page 8
... English and the French . A week ago nothing was heard of it ; no one dreamt of such an event ; but last Saturday the papers began to mention that there were strained relations between the two countries . Even then no word of war was ...
... English and the French . A week ago nothing was heard of it ; no one dreamt of such an event ; but last Saturday the papers began to mention that there were strained relations between the two countries . Even then no word of war was ...
Contents
Section 15 | 196 |
Section 16 | 227 |
Section 17 | 243 |
Section 18 | 247 |
Section 19 | 266 |
Section 20 | 276 |
Section 21 | 305 |
Section 22 | 319 |
Section 9 | 89 |
Section 10 | 90 |
Section 11 | 99 |
Section 12 | 163 |
Section 13 | 189 |
Section 14 | 194 |
Section 23 | 320 |
Section 24 | 331 |
Section 25 | 332 |
Section 26 | 348 |
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