# The Summing Up

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- Authors: [William Somerset Maugham](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-somerset-maugham)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0909-064-9
- Published: 2010-08-31
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Autobiographical without being an autobiography, confessional without disclosing his private self, The Summing Up , written when Maugham was sixty-four, is an inimitable expression of a personal credo. It is not only a classic avowal of a professional author's ideas about style, literarture, art, drama and philosophy, but also an illuminating insight into this great writer's craft.