毛姆的文学自传与创作谈，复盘生涯，剖白创作理念，凝练阅世智慧，尽显大师通透与犀利。

By 1938, Maugham had become a legend as a playwright, novelist and magician of the short story. He then wrote The Summing Up to give some account of how he learned his craft and why he became such an acute observer of human beings.

Impelled by the desire to recapitulate and amplify those 'subjects that have chiefly interested me during the course of my life', Somerset Maugham wrote The Summing Up when he was sixty-four. Autobiographical without being an autobiography, confessional without disclosing the private self, The Summing Up is one of the most highly regarded expressions of a personal credo. It...(展开全部)

By 1938, Maugham had become a legend as a playwright, novelist and magician of the short story. He then wrote The Summing Up to give some account of how he learned his craft and why he became such an acute observer of human beings.

Impelled by the desire to recapitulate and amplify those 'subjects that have chiefly interested me during the course of my life', Somerset Maugham wrote The Summing Up when he was sixty-four. Autobiographical without being an autobiography, confessional without disclosing the private self, The Summing Up is one of the most highly regarded expressions of a personal credo. It...(展开全部)

We use addition on a daily basis--yet how many of us stop to truly consider the enormous and remarkable ramifications of this mathematical activity? Summing It Up uses addition as a springboard to present a fascinating and accessible look at numbers and number theory, and how we apply beautiful numerical properties to answer math problems. Mathematicians Avner Ash and Robert Gr...(展开全部)

《总结》是毛姆酝酿多时、对他个人具有重大意义的创作生涯回忆录式作品，虽然他在全书开篇就澄清说“本书既非自传，也不是回忆录”。 在该书的前半部分，毛姆详尽回顾了自己的作家职业生涯，后半部分则由他对人生各个阶段影响他思想的问题的探讨构成。 写作《总结》时，毛姆年近六十，初衷是为了立下作为作家的“遗嘱”，他眼看老之将至，虽说“一个人不会在他立完遗嘱以后马上就死掉的”，“立下遗嘱是为了以防万一”。事实上，他写完《总结》后又活了二十七年，期间更是写出了代表作《刀锋》。

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