The pained veil. I have just read one of the Somerset Maugham’s novels under the title of “ The painted veil”‚ which he wrote in 1925. In his preface to the novel Maugham wrote‚ that he had felt a desire to use the story as an inspiration‚ but re-wrote it and made a more modern version of it. According to his words‚ it was the first time he started writing from a story instead of from a character. I can dare say‚ that the plot of the book is very tricky. But there is a great depth of meaning
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friends. On the other hand‚ some researches show that many people can create something only when their life is full of hardships and difficulties. Many writers devoted their works to description of creative people’s life. Among them are William Somerset Maugham‚ Kazuo Ishiguro‚ Mary Shelly and Ernest Hemingway. To my mind this fact proves that the fate of creative persons has interested people since long ago. To watch how the above mentioned writers reflected the fate of creative people in literature
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Mr. know all William 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. Maugham’s style is clear-cut and elegant. The attitude of the novelist to his character seems mostly to be cynically sarcastic. A play upon contrasts and contradictions lies at the basis of Maugham’s sarcastic method in portraying his characters. The author often thought upon the problems of relationship
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“The Escape” Analysis W. Somerset Maugham was born in 1874 in Paris‚ he is a famous English writer‚ who also received medical degree‚ but never practiced it. For a long time of his career of writer‚ he had no success‚ only in 1907‚ his “Lady Frederic”‚ a comedy of manners‚ was produced in London‚ and after it he became famous. Further on his plays were performed all over the world. He wrote his novels in Europe‚ where spent a lot of time travelling. He died in 1965. His novel “The Escape” is subjectivised
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The writer of ’The Luncheon’ William Somerset Maugham‚ in this short story‚relates about a lady who is an admirer of his stories. She wins the author’s favour and expresses her wish to meet him at a high class restaurant.William exposes the false motives of modest eating habits‚ of the middle classes with a touch of humour. Twenty years ago the author was living in Paris‚ when he had met a lady‚ who is an admirer of his stories. She had met him at a play and relates to him the incident during
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The writer of ’The Luncheon’ William Somerset Maugham‚ in this short story‚ relates about a lady who is an admirer of his stories. She wins the author’s favour and expresses her wish to meet him at a high class restaurant. William exposes the false motives of modest eating habits‚ of the middle classes with a touch of humour. ’The Luncheon’ is a plotted story. It comprises all the four elements of plot: the exposition‚ development‚ climax and resolution. The title is significant for the story as
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perspective the writer did it on purpose. After I’ve read the story up to the end I realized that the title and the content are contrasted. The title seems positive whereas the events of the story are brutal and tragic. The text is written by William Somerset Maugham‚ an English writer. He achieved a great success as a novelist with such novels as “Of Human Bondage”‚ “The Razor’s Edge” and others‚ as a dramatist‚ but he is best known by his short stories. His novels and short stories are characterized
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Medicine‚ Miracles and Beyond: The Dichotomy between Science and Supernatural While some readers argue‚ that William Somerset Maugham’s novel “The Magician” was concerning its damsel in distress‚ Margaret Dauncey‚ I believe the writer emphasized on the conflict between Arthur Burdon and Oliver Haddo. The novel not only discusses the debate between science and supernatural‚ but also superficiality‚ innocence‚ and deception present in the society. The severe personality clash between Burdon and
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The Force of Circumstances “The Force of Circumstance” is written by W. Somerset Maugham and takes place in Borneo (British colony)‚ however‚ the district is unclear but there are uses of exotic setting in the essay such as‚ mountains and rivers which indicates that the story takes place in a far and exotic country. It is about the end of a marriage between two people: Doris‚ an English girl and Guy‚ a man from Sembulu. Guy is 29 years old‚ and works for British colonial service; however‚ the
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The Moon and Sixpence The Moon and Sixpence.jpg Cover of the first UK edition Author William Somerset Maugham Country United Kingdom Language English Genre Biographical novel Publisher William Heinemann Publication date 1919 Media type Print (hardback & paperback) Pages 263 pp OCLC 22207227 The Moon and Sixpence is a novel by W Somerset Maugham‚ told in episodic form by a first-person narrator‚ in a series of glimpses into the mind and soul
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