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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William Somerset Maugham. actors , your own agent , a girl friend of yours , and three or four old actors who haven't had a part for twenty years . It is the perfect audience ... Lady Frederick was pro- duced [ 105 ] THE SUMMING UP.
William Somerset Maugham. actors , your own agent , a girl friend of yours , and three or four old actors who haven't had a part for twenty years . It is the perfect audience ... Lady Frederick was pro- duced [ 105 ] THE SUMMING UP.
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... Lady Frederick was a failure it seemed to me that there was nothing for me but to go back to the hos- pital for a year to refresh my knowledge of medicine and then get a post as surgeon on a ship . At that time this was a position not ...
... Lady Frederick was a failure it seemed to me that there was nothing for me but to go back to the hos- pital for a year to refresh my knowledge of medicine and then get a post as surgeon on a ship . At that time this was a position not ...
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... lady , and having made up my mind on this point , wrote Lady Frederick . But its most effective scene , the scene that afterwards made it so success- ful , was one in which the heroine in order to disil- lusion a young lover let him ...
... lady , and having made up my mind on this point , wrote Lady Frederick . But its most effective scene , the scene that afterwards made it so success- ful , was one in which the heroine in order to disil- lusion a young lover let him ...
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