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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Charles Strickland One of the best novels by William Somerset Maugham can be considered the novel “The Moon and Sixpence”‚ which describes the fate of a strange creative personality and a great artist at the same time Charles Strickland‚ the prototype of a famous artist of 19th century Paul Gaughen. His talent and genius were recognized only after his death and his work became his posthumous monument commemorating the artist’s extravagance and greatness at the same time. His character‚ views
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The Force of Circumstance by W. Somerset Maugham Brief summary Guy‚ an administrator of a small British colonial outpost‚ has lived there for ten years. When he was on holiday in England he met Doris. They married and she returned to the station with him. At first they are very happy but then Doris notices a young Malay woman with three half-caste children hanging around the bungalow and annoying Guy very much. Finally Guy confesses that he had a relationship with the woman and that
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THE MOON AND SIX PENCE (Chapter XII) I. Introduction - “Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees‚ they must put their lives into the sting they give” (Ralph Waldo Emerson) -MS was written in 1919 by William Somerset Maugham‚ a famous English writer‚ a novelist and a short story teller. In his writings‚ he kept to the principles of Realism‚ but his method of writing was also influenced by Naturalism‚ Neo-romanticism and Modernism. -The chapter XII of MS depicts the conversation between
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British writers since 1945". The Book Miguel Street is usually treated as a “semi-autobiographical” novel by V. S. Naipaul set in wartime Port of Spain‚ Trinidad and Tobago. Naipaul wrote it while employed at the BBC. Miguel Street won the 1961 Somerset Maugham Award. Narrative Structure and Style Analysis A. The whole story is separated in 17 disconnected episodes‚ each one starts a new beginning and a temporary end‚ focusing on one major character. B. The story is written primarily in the
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The screen adaptation of W.S. Maugham’s novel The painted veil |Directed by |John Curran | |Produced by |Edward Norton | | |Naomi Watts | |Release date(s) |December 20‚ 2006 (US) | |Country |China | |
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Description/Synopsis: Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad “V.S.” Naipaul was born in Trinidad on 17th August 1932‚ the descendant of indentured labourers shipped from India‚ this dispossessed child of the Raj has come on a long and marvellous journey. His upbringing familiarised him with every sort of deprivation‚ material and cultural. A scholarship to Oxford brought him to this country. Nothing sustained him afterwards except the determination‚ often close to despair‚ to become a writer. Against all likelihood
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"The Luncheon" by W. Somerset is a wonderfully written story‚ but the variation by Jeffrey Archer is equally as enticing. Both narratives tell of an author who is struggling to make ends meet‚ but sees his big break at a very expensive luncheon. I like both of the stories because although they have the same plot the twists at the end make them completely different. At first I wondered how the same story could be comparable‚ let only different‚ but I was wrong. These two variation are vastly analogous
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Widely known writer William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) acted as the playwright‚ the novelist and the short-story writer. There are serious problems in Maugham’s books which made the reader think a lot. Many of his stories are very fascinating. He authentically draws the social environment‚ time and a place of described events. The person is a main topic of his books. Maugham considered‚ that the writer should know life well and take part in life of a society. He was the participant of the first
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Practice what you preach Any person in the world is an individual and it goes without saying that all people differ. Consequently‚ all of them have different mentality‚ ideology‚ behavior‚ thoughts‚ attitude to the same things and phenomena. Usually since childhood we stand on one path and follow it during all our life. Here the influence of parents‚ grandparents‚ teachers can be seen‚ when we try to copy their adult habits. But it seems to be normal when a little child follows the ideas of
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