In "Mabel" Somerset Maugham describes the pursuit of her fiance‚ by a young woman all over the Far East and marries him after a seven year engagement. Maugham met George in a club in Mandalay‚ while waiting for the secretary of the club. George was a tall‚ thin‚ sun-burnt man with a big moustache. he was clad in Khaki dress. There was something unusual about him. The secretary of teh club narrated the story of George and his wife‚ Mabel. George became engaged to Mabel. When he was home on
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THE ESCAPE By Somerset Maugham W. Somerset Maugham‚ a famous English writer‚ was born in 1874 in Paris. He received his medical degree‚ but he never practiced medicine; the ambition to write dominated his entire life. In 1897 "Liza of Lambeth"‚ Maugham’s first novel‚ appeared. It had no success. For the next ten years Maugham wrote and starved. He turned out a steady stream of plays and novels none of which excited much attention. His luck changed in 1907. In that year "Lady Frederic"‚ a comedy
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The text which I’m going to analyse is "The happy man" written by Somerset Maugham. He is a well-known English novelist‚ short-story writer‚ playwright and essayist. Maugham was the son of a British diplomat. He was educated at King’s School in Canterbury‚ studied painting in Paris‚ went to Heidelberg University in Germany and studied to be a doctor at St. Thomas Hospital in England. Although Somerset Maugham didn’t denounce the contemporary social order‚ he was critical of the morals‚ the narrow-mindedness
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the future as well as personal beliefs in his novels. For example‚ Wells put scientific theorems into both novels that seemed futuristic at the time. Also‚ he describes his characters with a certain biased view‚ providing a stereotypical outlook (Maugham 2). Wells led a long and hardworking life. He was born to a mid-class family on September 21‚ 1866 in Bromley‚ Kent – a suburb of London. Herbert luckily avoided becoming a servant‚ like his parents. He did this in 1884 by winning a scholarship to
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Agee the novelist and poet was also a film critic? 8. Lady Jane Grey was the queen of England from July 10 1553 to July 19 1553. 9. Joseph registered for English 101 History 204 and Biology 106. 10. After discussing "Rain" we agreed that Somerset Maugham could really tell a good story. 11. Squaw Valley California the scene of the winter Olympics in 1960 is a ski resort. 12. Tomorrow I believe is the last day to register to vote in the November general election. 13. To perform well on Saturday afternoon
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William Somerset Maugham. The Unconquered. William Somerset Maugham is a British playwright‚ novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and the highest paid author during the 1930s. By 1940‚ when the collapse of France and its occupation by the German Third Reich forced Maugham to leave the French Riviera‚ he was a refugee – but one of the wealthiest and most famous writers in the English-speaking world. May because of his departure in 1943 he wrote a short
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to examine the situation with sympathy and open-mindedness. Ironically‚ the Church – the representative of God – does not save his life but let him down‚ and it is not a peaceful place for people as it is said to be. “Save the best for last”‚ Maugham undoubtedly has bared this in mind as he lets the irony reach its peak at the very end of the story. Now that Foreman has become a successful businessman with more than 10 tobacco shops under his hand‚ he comes to the bank for his regular depositing
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The Vendetta Guy de Maupassant was born in France in 1850.Maupassant developed to be one of the most famous short story writers of all time. In the short story ’A Vendetta’ the title is a glimpse into the plotnof the story‚ telling us that that there is a vendetta involved but doesn’t reveal the nature of the vendetta and its aims. There are 3 main characters in the story‚ they are‚ Widow Saverini‚ Frisky the dog‚ and Nicolas Ravolati. The story is about‚ an assassin Nicolas Ravolati kills Widow Saverini’s
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by William Somerset Maugham. First some information about the author. W. S. Maugham was a well-known English playwright‚ novelist and short story writer. He was the son of a British diplomat. He was educated at King’s school in Canterbury‚ studied painting in Paris‚ went to Heidelberg University in Germany and studied to be a doctor at St.Thomas Hospital in England. So‚ he put his hand in different activities and that’s why he is a versatile and experienced person. S. Maugham was critical of the
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When I was about fifteen‚ I read Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham and I was mesmerized. At the time‚ I was living in a town of a 1‚000 residents in western Colorado where my father was a minister. My older sister‚ Alice‚ had died in an automobile accident and I was struggling to make sense of that age old question: “Why do bad things happen to good people?” I don’t remember now how I got my hands on Of Human Bondage or why I started reading it‚ but once I did‚ I couldn’t put it down.
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