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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... young writer to know what his contemporaries are writing about and how . But there are fashions in literature and it is not easy to tell what intrinsic value there is in a style of writing that happens to be the vogue at the moment . An ...
... young writer to know what his contemporaries are writing about and how . But there are fashions in literature and it is not easy to tell what intrinsic value there is in a style of writing that happens to be the vogue at the moment . An ...
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... young enter upon life now with advantages that were denied to the young of my generation . They are hampered by fewer con- ventions and they have learnt how great is the value of youth . The world of my twenties was a middle- aged world ...
... young enter upon life now with advantages that were denied to the young of my generation . They are hampered by fewer con- ventions and they have learnt how great is the value of youth . The world of my twenties was a middle- aged world ...
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... Young women have learnt now to be the companions of young men . One of the difficulties that my generation had to face , the gener- ation that saw the emancipation of women , was this : women had ceased to be the housekeepers and ...
... Young women have learnt now to be the companions of young men . One of the difficulties that my generation had to face , the gener- ation that saw the emancipation of women , was this : women had ceased to be the housekeepers and ...
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