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    achievements‚ is what makes this book stand out in a crowd. Dahl’s exceptional sentence style and word choice advises the reader for the duration of the book. However‚ these writing strategies are not the only ways that shape the novel. William Somerset Maugham once stated‚ “There are three rules to writing a good book. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.” While this may be true‚ there are three evident rules that are modeled in Dahl’s autobiography. Being extremely descriptive‚ breathtaking moments

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    Mr. Know-All W. Somerset Maugham The title. The title is very sarcastic; someone who thinks they know everything. Someone who is a show off The writer British writer‚ he writes English criticism The story set on a ship after world war 1.- The British gvmnt building the empire the colonized much of asia and Africa. They gave people from these countries a passport. We can infer the main subjects would be criticism of prejudice\ racism because of the title and who is the writer Social

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    The Painted Veil

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    The Painted Veil is a 1925 novel from British author W. Somerset Maugham. A lost girl named Kitty marries a guy named Walter Fane‚ a bacteriologist. The only reason that she marries him is so she can be married before her little sister Doris. She also had to get away from her mom. She moves to Hong Kong with her husband‚ and quickly gets bored. Kitty meets a guy named Charles Townsend who is the colonial secretary’s assistant. They start having an affair with each other. Her husband Walter finds

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    English Lexicology‚ Moscow Moscow: Higher School Pub. House‚ 1979.  2. Smirnitskii‚ A. I.‚ Essentials of Russian grammar‚ Moscow: Higher School Pub. House‚ 1970.  3. Maugham‚ W. S.‚ Cakes and ale; The painted veil; Liza of Lambeth; The razor ’s edge; Theatre; The moon and sixpence‚ New York‚ N.Y. : Octopus/Heinemann‚ 1980. 4. Maugham‚ W. S.‚ The moon and sixpence (translation in Armenian)‚ Yerevan: Luys‚ 1989.

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    the escape summary

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    The text under consideration is the short story “The Escape” written by a famous English writer Somerset Maugham. The plot of the story is quite simple‚ though interesting. The protagonist of the story is a young‚ clever‚ well-mannered man rolling in money – Roger Charing. He’s such a gentleman to his fingertips‚ that once he so graciously managed to get rid of a woman‚ that nobody even noticed. He‚ our impeccable man‚ falls in love with Ruth Barlow‚ an unfortunate woman who was twice a widow

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    Encouraged various near –contemporary poets‚ undergraduates at the time. The influence of her early work can be felt in the apprentice work of Alan Brwonjohn and of Anthony Thwaite who in reviewing her Collected Poems called her ‘ one of the two best living English poets under forty- five.’the other was Larkin. (Schmidt 346-47) Jennings met several women poets during this time including Anne Ridler‚ Adrienne Rich‚ and Kathleen Raine. Anne Ridler had shown a great interest in her

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    Painted Veil

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    Romantic tales can take many forms; some are sugary sweet with illogical storylines and even more illogical conclusions. The film The Painted Veil (2006) by director John Curran‚ an adaptation of the W. Somerset Maugham novel‚ forgoes sugar for pungent truths. This story is steeped in the painful emotions of betrayal‚ resentment and the realities of marrying for the wrong reasons. Viewers are taken on a visually stunning and emotionally charged journey to the meat of the heart where love is not always

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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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    Mr Know All

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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 author and the title | Somerset Maugham‚ Louise | Type of text | Short story | Outline of the story | This is a story about woman that told by author‚ who is also main character in the story. It’s about relationship between them and about relationship between the woman and her husbands‚ daughter. | Setting of the story | Enigmatic‚ gloomy‚ sarcastic | Complication | The story has dynamic complication. In the beginning of story Louise is alone‚ but during the story she outlived

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