The Summing UpAutobiographical 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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... Jack Straw Lady Frederick The Tenth Man Landed Gentry The Unknown Smith The Land of Promise Six Comedies 12916 W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Um 1945 Doubleday , Doran & Company BOOKS BY.
... Jack Straw Lady Frederick The Tenth Man Landed Gentry The Unknown Smith The Land of Promise Six Comedies 12916 W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Um 1945 Doubleday , Doran & Company BOOKS BY.
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... Jack Straw . I had been under the impression that the small success I had had with the Stage Society would im- press managers in my favour . To my mortification I found that this was not so . In fact my connection with that body ...
... Jack Straw . I had been under the impression that the small success I had had with the Stage Society would im- press managers in my favour . To my mortification I found that this was not so . In fact my connection with that body ...
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... Jack Straw at the Vaude- ville . In June Lewis Waller put on at the Lyric a play called The Explorer which I had written im- mediately after A Man of Honour . I had achieved what I wanted . 1 xxxiii The first three had long runs ...
... Jack Straw at the Vaude- ville . In June Lewis Waller put on at the Lyric a play called The Explorer which I had written im- mediately after A Man of Honour . I had achieved what I wanted . 1 xxxiii The first three had long runs ...
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accept action actors admire ęsthetic amusing artist asked audience beauty believe better character comedy common conscious course crasy critic deal delight dialogue discover Dr Johnson drama dramatist effect emotion English evil exciting existence experience eyes fact feeling fiction forced French gave Gerald du Maurier gift give Goethe hard Henry Arthur Jones Human Bondage human nature humour ideas idiosyncrasy imagination important instinct interest invention Jack Straw knew Kuno Fischer Lady Frederick literature live Liza of Lambeth look matter Matthew Arnold meaning mind ness never notion novel novelist one's pattern perfect perhaps philosophers phrase picture play pleasure produced prose reader reason seemed sense sometimes sort soul spirit St Thomas's Hospital Stendhal story success suppose tell theatre things thought tion told truth verse Walter Pater wanted words write written wrote young youth