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 vi
... felt for his mother charged his recollections of his unhappy childhood with venom. I surmise that he would be already forgotten but for the publication after his death of the diary that he kept assiduously for twenty years. It is a ...
... felt for his mother charged his recollections of his unhappy childhood with venom. I surmise that he would be already forgotten but for the publication after his death of the diary that he kept assiduously for twenty years. It is a ...
Page viii
... felt for his mother charged his recollections of his unhappy childhood with venom . I surmise that he would be already forgotten but for the publication after his death of the diary that he kept assiduously for twenty years . It is a ...
... felt for his mother charged his recollections of his unhappy childhood with venom . I surmise that he would be already forgotten but for the publication after his death of the diary that he kept assiduously for twenty years . It is a ...
Page xi
... felt even by authors of reputation will have when they know that a notice is to appear in such and such a paper , and their fury when it is not a good one . It is true that criticism carries greater weight in France than it does in ...
... felt even by authors of reputation will have when they know that a notice is to appear in such and such a paper , and their fury when it is not a good one . It is true that criticism carries greater weight in France than it does in ...
Page 6
... ; the agony was so terrible that at last she felt she could bear it no longer and she went into the kitchen and there spent the night praying . # Most people are such fools that it really is no [ 6 ] A WRITER'S NOTEBOOK.
... ; the agony was so terrible that at last she felt she could bear it no longer and she went into the kitchen and there spent the night praying . # Most people are such fools that it really is no [ 6 ] A WRITER'S NOTEBOOK.
Page 32
... felt the harm of it . But he must have the power to make himself heard : the poor must endure in silence . The moral ideas of the present day are so ingrained that the philosopher only feels perfectly sure of himself when his ...
... felt the harm of it . But he must have the power to make himself heard : the poor must endure in silence . The moral ideas of the present day are so ingrained that the philosopher only feels perfectly sure of himself when his ...
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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