SINGING AND DANCING written by Susan Hill. The author is known as a British short story writer‚ novelist‚ playwright and critic. Her novels include The Woman in Black‚ The Mist in the Mirror and I’m the King of the Castle for which she received the Somerset Maugham Award in 1971. The extract describes the feelings of guilt and confusion of the main character Esme Fanshow after her mother’s death. The basic theme is the consequence of the attitude of a despotic mother to her caring but infantile daughter
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UNIVERSITY OF ASIA PACIFIC DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH ENG 105 INTRODUCTION TO PROSE Topic: Analyzing short story’s setting. Submitted To: Niger Afroz Islam Lecturer Department of English University of Asia Pacific‚ Dhaka. Submitted By: Nafis Kamal Reg. No.: 13116003 First Year First Semester Department of English University of Asia Pacific‚ Dhaka. Date of Submission: July 31‚ 2013 Analyzing short story’s setting. Definition of the Short Story: The short story is a piece of art
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Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (French pronunciation: [ɡi də mopasã]) (5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a popular 19th-century French writer and considered one of the fathers of the modern short story. A protégé of Flaubert‚ Maupassant’s stories are characterized by their economy of style and efficient‚ effortless dénouement. Many of the stories are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s and several describe the futility of war and the innocent civilians who‚ caught in the conflict
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"The Escape" by Somerset Maugham I have always believed that if a woman made up her mind to marry a man nothing could save him. I have only once known a man who in such circumstances managed to save himself. His name was Roger Charing. He was no longer young when he fell in love with Ruth Barlow and he had had enough experience to make him careful; but Ruth Barlow had a gift that makes most men defenceless. This was the gift of pathos. Mrs. Barlow was twice a widow. She had splendid dark eyes and
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It is equally terrifying or even a death sentence‚ to know the exact hour when you die. Today‚ however‚ with the development of mechanical respirators‚ electronic pacemakers‚ and other medical technologies‚ it has created the possibility of a greater temporal separation between various system failures. A person may slip into coma or lose consciousness a decade or more before his heart and lungs fail‚ for example. Meanwhile‚ interest in the availability of transplantable organs has provided an incentive
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Stephan Meyer Pride and Prejudice “It is a truth universally acknowledged‚ that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighborhood‚ this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families‚ that he is considered the rightful property of some one ot other of their daughters” (Austen‚ Pride and Prejudice 1). These first sentences of Austen’s novel immediately
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The novel under the title “Moon and Sixpence” was written by Somerset Maugham who was an English 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. The analyzing extract from the book “Moon and Sixpence” runs about a life of Strickland‚ who devotes his life to the art forgetting about the ordinary life and ordinary requirements. Being a starving tramp he spends all his money for purchase of canvases
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Unpredicted events can change a person. This is what happened to Larry from The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham. The decisions that Larry has made might seem a bit selfish to some readers but the word selfish involves a lack of consideration for others‚ therefore‚ Larry does not fit in that category. He may be a bit troubled‚ hence‚ the decision to “loaf” and travel to Paris for some type of enlightenment. (32) Judging Larry for his decisions‚ or anyone for that matter‚ is wrong because sometimes
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Bit of Singing and Dancing’ Susan Hill CBE (born 5 February 1942) is an English author of fiction and non-fiction works. Her novels include The Woman in Black‚ The Mist in the Mirror and I’m the King of the Castle for which she received the Somerset Maugham Award in 1971. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to literature.[1][2] A Bit of Singing and Dancing is a short story collection by British writer Susan Hill. It was
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Sameer Al- Shraah Broad Area reading list Dr. Thomas Slater Albee‚ Edward. The American dream ; and‚ The zoo story : two plays. New York : Plume‚ 1997. Davis‚ Jack. No Sugar. Sydney : Currency Press‚ 1986. Fugard‚ Athol. My Children! My Africa! New York‚ NY : Theatre Communications Group‚ 1990. ---.Master Harold-- and the boys. New York : S. French‚ 1982. ---.The Blood Knot. Cape Town : Oxford University Press‚ 1992. Miller‚ Arthur. Death of a salesman. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea
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