The Summing Up (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: W. Somerset Maugham
- First Published: 1938
- Type of Work: Literary autobiography
- Time of Work: 1890-1938
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Family or family life, Literature, Schools or school life, Criticism, Creative process, Dramatic criticism
Critical Evaluation:
Although THE SUMMING UP must be classified as autobiography, in only a very few of the seventy-seven sections into which it is divided is the author concerned with the listing of facts and events or the description of personalities important in his life, a procedure one customarily associates with this literary genre. In Sections VI and VII Mr. Maugham writes brief notes on his grandparents, his eccentric barrister grandfather (on his father’s side his family has been connected with the law for several generations), and his grandmother on...
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