Somerset Maugham The text under interpretation is “Escape” by William Somerset Maugham. 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 versatile and experienced person. S. Maugham was critical
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The text given for interpretation is an extract from the novel “From W. S.” by L.P.Hartley‚ a British writer‚ known for novels and short stories. L.P. Hartley was a highly skilled narrator and all his tales are admirably told. As a contemporary reviewer remarked‚ “not only does he portray the exterior of social life with a novelist’s sharp eye for detail‚ but he also explores the underworld of fears and fantasies through which we wander in our ugliest dreams”. “From W.S.” comes from “The Complete
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Somerset Maugham was a British playwright‚ novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest paid author during the 1930s. After losing both his parents by the age of 10‚ Maugham was raised by a paternal uncle who was emotionally cold. Not wanting to become a lawyer like other men in his family‚ Maugham eventually trained and qualified as a doctor. The first run of his first novel‚ Liza of Lambeth (1897)‚ sold out so rapidly that Maugham gave
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Review of Me and You and Everyone We Know Miranda July’s independent movie Me and You and Everyone We Know is very cute and a little bit bizarrely funny‚ which mainly observes of how modern people struggle to connect with each other in an isolating world. Through the usage of film techniques such color and the camera distances and angles‚ views get a better understanding of how the central character Christine‚ a lonely artist who operates a cab service for the elderly‚ falls in love and holds hands
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LOOKING BACK ON EIGHTY YEARS By William Somerset Maugham In my long life I have seen many changes in our habits and customs. The world I entered when at the age of eighteen I became a medical student was a world that knew nothing of planes‚ motor-cars‚ movies‚ radio or telephone. When I was still at school a lecturer came to Canterbury and showed us boys a new machine which reproduced the human voice. It was the first gramophone. The world I entered was a world that warmed itself with
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All We Know - Chainsmokers The song ‘All We Know’ by the Chainsmokers is a song‚ (assisted by a music video) showing the idea of sorrow and anger after losing someone important in your life. It follows an unknown character in the video‚ a young man. It begins with him receiving a phone call then proceeds to follow him through pain and anger‚ the phone call is in darkness‚ the person on the other end of the line is muffled and is unable to be interpreted. The key idea expressed in this text is that
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Стилистический анализ текста: Leslie Poles Hartley “W. S.” The text under stylistic analysis is taken from the book “W.S.” by Leslie Poles Hartley.The story is told by author. The main character of the story - Walter Streeter - gets the postcards with messages from anonymous and starts thinking them over. The author uses simile “like other novelists” to show that he is not the only one who gets such postcards. Walter was used to getting communications from strangers‚ sometimes they were friendly
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The story under the title “The Escape” was written by one of the outstanding English writers – William Somerset Maugham. The plot of the story is quite simple‚ though interesting. The protagonist of the story‚ a young man rolling in money – Roger Charing – fell in love with Ruth Barlow‚ an unfortunate woman who was twice a widow. They had all the happy and pleasant moments of relationships a loving couple usually has and intended to marry. Then suddenly Roger fell out of love with Ruth. But he
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is „Character depiction in the novel The Moon and the Sixpence” of William Somerst Maugham. The reason for writing a paper on this topic are numerous. First‚ the literary works of W.S. Maugham are very famous and popular all over the world. He is recognized as a master of short-story‚ novel a plays writing. Another reason is that author’s characters are considered to be an intresting resouce for studies. Maugham often is represented as a narroter‚ re-telling unexpected stories of people he has
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