C.‚ 2000. A history of American Literary Journalism. The Emergence of a Modern Narrative Form. Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Press. Lounsberry‚ B.‚ 1990. The Art of Fact – Contemporary Artists of Nonfiction. Lincoln: Greenwood Press. Maugham‚ S.‚ 1938. The Summing Up. London: Heinemann. Roggenkamp‚ K.‚ 2005. Narrating the News: New Journalism and Literary Genre in Late Nineteenth Century Newspapers and Fiction.Kent‚ OH: Kent State University Press. Articles Conley‚ D.‚ 1998 Murphy‚ J
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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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Mabel by W. S. Maugham Short story analysis At the beginning‚ I would like to say some things about the title of the story. It doesn‘t represent anything significant‚ because it is only a woman‘s name and reader can‘t forecast what is going to happen in the story. The reader can only guess that Mabel is protagonist‘s name. The title doesn‘t states the cause of the conflict. This story comprises all four mine elements of the plot. The exposition lies in the opening paragraph. It represents
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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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their dignity hunting money. They don’t appreciate such important things as family‚ friendship‚ love and other feelings. Such people become greedy‚ they spend their lives in loneliness. I don’t deny that money influences our life a lot. As W.S. Maugham said “ Money is like the sixth feeling without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.” I quite agree. A person can’t be happy if he has no money to satisfy his natural needs. But I think that money should have a limit. A person shouldn’t
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This text is taken from the book of very famous writer W.S. Maugham “Theatre”. This is a piece of narration which is done in the 3rd person. The main key the text is written is rather ironical‚ as I think‚ and its slat is very emotional. The main characters of the story are Michael and Julia. They both are actors and work together in the theatre of Jammie Langtone. Julia is more successful and more talented than Machael but it doesn’t disturb them to be fond of each other. In this part of the
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Death is an obvious and underlining theme in both the stories of god father death and Appointment in Samarra. This does not just mean the act of dying but the character itself. Death is portrayed as an omniscient being‚ whose prescience is the ultimate fear. In both stories however‚ Death does not act as controller of everything or even all knowing. In God father death the king and princess are able to cheat death through the doctor’s healing powers‚ despite Death’s plans. Then in Appointment in
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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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