The Summing Up

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Doubleday, Doran, Incorporated, 1938 - Authors - 310 pages
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Autobiographical and confessional, and yet not, this is one of the most highly regarded expressions of a personal credo - both a classic avowal of an author's ideas and his craft.

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This is one of the best books I read for providing a philosophical view of life. It is a book I intend to read again. Read full review

Contents

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Section 2
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Section 3
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About the author (1938)

Writer William Somerset Maugham was born in Paris on January 25, 1874. He attended St. Thomas's Medical School in London. A prolific writer, Maugham produced novels, short stories, plays, and an autobiographical novel, "Of Human Bondage." Although he remains popular for his novels and short stories, when he was alive his plays, now dated, were also popular, and in 1908 four of his plays ran simultaneously. Maugham died in Nice, France, on December 16, 1965.

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TitleThe Summing Up
A Mentor book
Volume 597 of American Penguins
Volume 597 of Penguin books
AuthorWilliam Somerset Maugham
PublisherDoubleday, Doran, Incorporated, 1938
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized23 Nov 2005
ISBN0451603583, 9780451603586
Length310 pages
  
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