The Summing Up

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The Summing Up is a literary memoir by W. Somerset Maugham, written when he was 64 years old, first published in 1938.^[1] It covered his life from 1890 to 1938. The subject matter includes his childhood, his initial success in theater, his transition from theater to fiction writing, and other miscellaneous topics such as travel, and philosophy. It is a small book filled with memorable quotes.

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↑ Morgan, Ted. Somerset Maugham. J. Cape, 1980. xix.

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The Summing Up at Faded Page (Canada)

v t e Works by W. Somerset Maugham
Novels	Liza of Lambeth (1897) Mrs Craddock (1902) The Magician (1908) Of Human Bondage (1915) The Moon and Sixpence (1919) The Painted Veil (1925) Cakes and Ale (1930) The Narrow Corner (1932) Theatre (1937) Christmas Holiday (1939) Up at the Villa (1941) The Razor's Edge (1944) Then and Now (1946) Catalina (1948)
Short story collections	The Trembling of a Leaf (1921) The Casuarina Tree (1926) Ashenden (1928) Ah King (1933) The Mixture as Before (1940) Creatures of Circumstance (1947)
Short stories	"Rain" "The Vessel of Wrath" "The Lotus Eater" "The Unconquered"
Plays	Loaves and Fishes (1902) Lady Frederick (1907) Smith (1909) Penelope (1909) The Land of Promise (1913) Our Betters (1917) Caesar's Wife (1919) The Circle (1921) The Constant Wife (1926) The Letter (1927) The Sacred Flame (1928) The Bread-Winner (1930) For Services Rendered (1932) Sheppey (1933)
Non-fiction	On a Chinese Screen (1922) The Summing Up (1938) Ten Novels and Their Authors (1954)
Adaptations	The Explorer (1915) The Land of Promise (1917) Smith (1917) The Divorcée (1919) Jack Straw (1920) East of Suez (1925) The Circle (1925) The Canadian (1926) The Magician (1926) Sadie Thompson (1928) The Letter (1929) Charming Sinners (1929) Strictly Unconventional (1930) Rain (1932) The Narrow Corner (1933) Our Betters (1933) Of Human Bondage (1934) The Painted Veil (1934) The Right to Live (1935) Secret Agent (1936) The Tenth Man (1936) Isle of Fury (1936) Another Dawn (1937) The Vessel of Wrath (1938) The Letter (1940) Too Many Husbands (1940) The Moon and Sixpence (1942) Christmas Holiday (1944) The Hour Before the Dawn (1944) Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A. (1946) The Razor's Edge (1946) Of Human Bondage (1946) The Unfaithful (1947) Quartet (1948) Trio (1950) Encore (1951) Miss Sadie Thompson (1953) The Beachcomber (1954) The Seventh Sin (1957) Adorable Julia (1962) Of Human Bondage (1964) The Razor's Edge (1984) Up at the Villa (2000) Being Julia (2004) The Painted Veil (2006)
Related	Somerset Maugham Award

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