20 Reasons for Decline in Reading Habit W. Somerset Maugham said‚ “To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all miseries of life.” Reading habit has been a great help in developing knowledge. But today‚ in an age when browsing the net‚ playing with funky handsets and passing non-stop SMS seem to be the order of the day. The internet boom‚ interactive medium of images‚ TV and the silver screen filling the minds of the modern youth‚ taking majority of their
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try‚ she was a slut.” This one phrase completely epitomizes Kitty Fane’s abject‚ egocentric nature in The Painted Veil. In this essay the supposed divergence of Kitty’s behavior and attitude shall be explored‚ and abolished as a mere illusion. Somerset Maugham created Kitty Fane to be a selfish‚ un-loyal wife that goes on an enlightening journey in cholera stricken Mei-Tan Fu‚ and changes into a caring‚ loving wife that rues her infidelity and self-indulgence‚ and who becomes almost pitiful
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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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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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Literature in 1972 and was a presenter of BBC Radio 4 ’s ’Bookshelf ’ from 1986 to 1987. In 1996 she started her own publishing company‚ Long Barn Books‚ editing and publishing a quarterly literary journal‚ Books and Company‚ in 1998. She won a Somerset Maugham Award for I ’m the King of the Castle (1970); the Whitbread Novel Award for The Bird of Night (1972); and the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for The Albatross (1971)‚ a collection of short stories. Her other novels include Strange Meeting
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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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‘Catholicism without a Pope’. Henry had always tended to move cautiously when introducing liturgical and doctrinal changes but perhaps his religious legacy can be seen to be left in the fact he had his one and only son raised as a Protestant. When Somerset took power over the country as protectorate to Edward he was faced by a country that was only ‘halfly reformed’ and with many other issues based on foreign policy. Six years later and the country goes from a state of Catholicism without a Pope to
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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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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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