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    Analysis The Unconquered

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    William Somerset Maugham. The Unconquered. William Somerset Maugham is a British playwright‚ novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and the highest paid author during the 1930s. By 1940‚ when the collapse of France and its occupation by the German Third Reich forced Maugham to leave the French Riviera‚ he was a refugee – but one of the wealthiest and most famous writers in the English-speaking world. May because of his departure in 1943 he wrote a short

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    Vendetta

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    The Vendetta Guy de Maupassant was born in France in 1850.Maupassant developed to be one of the most famous short story writers of all time.  In the short story ’A Vendetta’ the title is a glimpse into the plotnof the story‚ telling us that that there is a vendetta involved but doesn’t reveal the nature of the vendetta and its aims. There are 3 main characters in the story‚ they are‚ Widow Saverini‚ Frisky the dog‚ and Nicolas Ravolati.  The story is about‚ an assassin Nicolas Ravolati kills Widow Saverini’s

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    Charity Begins at Home

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    Religious Education based post! Well‚ it is a Sunday morning and I must have woken with my “Vicar of Kettering” head on so I thought I would give you all an informative‚ sensible blog before I turn into my usual self which is more on a par with “Verger Alice” Suitable joke to follow Seriously now‚ my actual reason for my little R.E lesson this morning is that yesterday‚ I truly did see Charity in its true sense! Whilst my youngest daughter Evie and I were in our kitchen preparing dinner‚ my

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    Happy Man Analysis

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    by William Somerset Maugham. First some information about the author. 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 a versatile and experienced person. S. Maugham was critical of the

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    When I was about fifteen‚ I read Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham and I was mesmerized. At the time‚ I was living in a town of a 1‚000 residents in western Colorado where my father was a minister. My older sister‚ Alice‚ had died in an automobile accident and I was struggling to make sense of that age old question: “Why do bad things happen to good people?” I don’t remember now how I got my hands on Of Human Bondage or why I started reading it‚ but once I did‚ I couldn’t put it down.

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    The Painted Veil

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    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 in the novel‚ which is finely hiding from inattentive reader. Its main message is a critique of society‚ its shallowness and selfishness. Maugham clearly demonstrates

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    The Painted Veil

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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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    What Is an Artist?

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    forgotten. An artist as a man apart‚ what is he? For example let’s take W. S. Maugham and his work “The moon and Sixpence” in which he wrote about Charles Strickland‚ a middle-aged English stockbroker who abandoned his family and became an artist. He was concentrated on his art. He was indifferent to love‚ friendship and kindness. His pictures fell flat on the public and recognition came to him only after death. W. S. Maugham wrote: “An artist as a man apart is alone in his world. He is shut in a tower

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    analysis

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    STYLISTIC ANALYSIS William Somerset Maugham «THE ESCAPE» William Somerset Maugham is one of the best known English writers of the 20th century. The trend he belongs to is realism with slight ifluence of expressionism. A novelist‚ a dramatist‚ and a short-story writer‚ he gained an outstanding reputation with his prominent books “Of Human Bondage”‚ “The Moon and Sixpence”‚ and “The Razor’s Edge”. The observer of the first decades of the 20th century‚ Maugham is deeply critical of the morals and

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    force of circumstances

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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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