Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410345610
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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A Study Guide for W. Somerset Maugham's "The Fall of Edward Barnard," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
Author: Cengage Learning Gale
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781375390897
Category : Study Aids
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410356264
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 29
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A Study Guide for W. Somerset Maugham's "The Razor's Edge," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
Author: William Somerset Maugham
Publisher: Mondial
ISBN: 1595691197
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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In 1916, William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) travelled to the Pacific to research his novel "The Moon and Sixpence," based on the life of Paul Gauguin. This was the first of those journeys through the late-Imperial world of the 1920s and 1930s which were to establish Maugham forever in the popular imagination as the chronicler of the last days of colonialism in India, Southeast Asia, China and the Pacific, although the books on which this reputation rests represent only a fraction of his output.---Maugham reused elements of his Pacific diaries in "The Trembling of a Leaf" (1921), which contains one of his most recognized stories, "Rain," adapted to the stage by John Colton and Clemence Randolph in 1922.
Author: Alba Amoia
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313016488
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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The final decades of the 20th century have seen an explosion of interest in multiculturalism. But multiculturalism is more than an awareness of the different cultures comprising contemporary societies. For centuries, people from around the world have come in contact with cultures other than their own, and their exposure to multiple cultures has fostered their creativity and ability to make lasting contributions to civilization. The effects of multiculturalism are especially apparent in literature, since writers tend to be particularly aware of their environments and record their experiences. This reference includes alphabetically arranged entries for more than 100 world writers from antiquity to 1945, who were significantly influenced by cultures other than their own. Included are entries for major canonical Ancient and Modern writers of the Western and Eastern worlds. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a brief biography, a discussion of multicultural themes and contexts, a summary of the writer's critical reception, and primary and secondary bibliographies. By illuminating the shaping influence of multiculturalism on these writers, the volume points to the lasting value of multiculturalism in the contemporary world.
Author: William Somerset Maugham
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
ISBN:
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Author: W. Somerset Maugham
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 179
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Cosmopolitans" by W. Somerset Maugham. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Author: Warren S. Walker
Publisher: Hamden, Conn., Shoe String P
ISBN:
Category : Short story
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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The purpose of this volume is to provide a bibliography of short story explication published from 1900 through 1960 in books, monographs, and periodicals. - Preface.
Author: David Crystal
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226122014
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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From Homer ("winged words") to Robert Burns ("Beware a tongue that's smoothly hung") to Rudyard Kipling ("Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind"), writers from all over the world have put pen to paper on the inexhaustible topic of language. Yet surprisingly, their writings on the subject have never been gathered in a single volume. In Words on Words, David and Hilary Crystal have collected nearly 5,000 quotations about language and all its intriguing aspects: speaking, reading, writing, translation, verbosity, usage, slang, and more. As the stock-in-trade of so many professions—orators, media personalities, writers, and countless others—language's appeal as a subject is extraordinarily relevant and wide-ranging. The quotations are grouped thematically under 65 different headings, from "The Nature of Language" through the "Language of Politics" to "Quoting and Misquoting." This arrangement enables the reader to explore a topic through a variety of lenses, ancient and modern, domestic and foreign, scientific and casual, ironic and playful. Three thorough indexes—to authors, sources, and key words—provide different entry points into the collection. A valuable resource for professional writers and scholars, Words on Words is for anyone who loves language and all things linguistic.
