Презентация по английскому языку W. Somerset Maugham

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  Тhe presentation is done by Sidorovskaya Julia, 11B class, school N 2
  Teacher Mureeva V.A.
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  W. Somerset Maugham
  

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  Foreword
  Childhood
  Adolescence
  Creative activity
  Theater
  Maugham and modern generation
  British intelligence
  Thoughts of Maugham messaged to descendants
  Famous works
  «Of human bondage»
  «The Painted Veil»
  End of life
  Death
  Useful resources
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  "It seems to me that the world in which we live, you can watch without
  disgust just because there is beauty that man from time to time
  creates out of the chaos... And most of all beauty is enclosed in a beautifully lived
  life. It is the highest work of art»
  «The Painted Veil»
  William Somerset Maugham
  

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  Maugham heritage is truly unique. His work indicated is known
  restraint, detachment and rationality in the transmission of the heartbeat of life
  Maybe he's better than his critics understood this and said this himself: «... my writings there cannot be warmth, humanity and a wide
  the mental clarity that we find in only the greatest of writers»
  Foreword
  

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  Somerset Maugham was born on 25 January 1874 in Paris
  In childhood Maugham spoke only French, English mastered only after 10 years of an orphan (he was eight years old when his mother died, and in ten years, Maugham lost his father) and was sent to relatives in the English town of Whitstable
  
  "I was rather short of stature; robust, but not strong physically; I stuttered, was shy and weak health. I had no inclination for the sport, which occupies such an important place in the life of Englishmen; and — whether one of these causes, whether from birth — I instinctively avoided people that prevented me to meet with them".
  Memories:
  The writer's mother
  Little William
  Childhood
  

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  William began his studies at the Royal school in Canterbury. Then he studied literature and philosophy at the University of Heidelberg in Heidelberg, Maugham wrote his first essay — a biography of the composer Meyerbeer (when it was rejected by the publisher, Maugham burned the manuscript).
  To hide from the outside helped Maugham books and passion for reading. Willie lived in a world of books, including become your favorite fairy tales "Thousand and one nights", "Alice in Wonderland" Carroll, Waverley and Scott's adventure novels of captain Marrieta
  Adolescence
  

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  In the fall of 1892 he returned to England, and enrolled in medical school
  Тhree years of intensive work in hospital wards in one of the poorest areas of London Maugham helped to understand human nature much deeper than previously read books
  "During these three years I have witnessed all of the emotions to which man is capable of. It kindled my instinct dramatist, cared about me as a writer... I saw how people died. Saw how they bore pain. Saw the look of hope, fear, relief; saw black shadows, which puts a face on despair; saw courage and fortitude"
  Memories:
  

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  After the war, Maugham continued a successful career as a playwright by writing the plays «Тhe Circle» , «Sheppey» . Along with novels Maugham — «Оf human bondage» is almost an autobiographical novel, «Тhe Moon and sixpence» , «Cakes and beer» , «Theatre» , «The edge of a razor»
  Creative activity
  

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  Along with entertaining comedies Maugham created in the prewar years and astrocities plays: "Cream of society", "Smith" and "promised Land", which raised themes of social inequality, hypocrisy and corruption of representatives of the highest echelons of power
  Memories:
  "The public Newspapers praised the play's wit, gaiety and theatrical, but was scolded for cynicism; the more serious critics were merciless to them. They called their cheap, vulgar, told me that I sold my soul to Mammon. And intelligentsia, previously chikusa me a modest but well respected member, not only turned its back on me, but banished me to the abyss of hell as the new Lucifer"
  Theater
  

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  The works of Maugham and to this day, cause people have mixed experiences and delight:
  Maugham and modern generation
  «LOVED this book. It was such a delicious read. And Julia Lambert is a completely unforgettable character. I could have continued reading her story for another 1000 pages. The story follows the rise of a theatre (stage) star - Julia - and is told from her point of view and it's so fun to watch her 'perform' her way through life, through affairs, through motherhood, and watch what she lives and what he thinks…»
  «I always love how Somerset Maugham tells a story, and his characters; and being a play write himself this subject matter is his area of expertise….»
  «…Somerset Maugham's style is straightforward and entertaining. I know very much more about the theatre now than I did when I was a schoolgirl, so this book is more meaningful to me now than it was all those years ago…»
  

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  In the first world war he was drafted into the army, and served in a sanitary battalion, and then enlisted in the British intelligence. Doing her job, he year was in Switzerland, and then was sent on a secret mission to Russia. Objective: to prevent exit of Russia from war
  Two years he spent in a tuberculosis sanatorium that gave him a new inexhaustible material for creativity. But his comedies and dramas have started to compete on stage with the plays of Bernard Shaw. Maugham had a real "instinct scene". The plays were given to him with surprising ease. They were full of winning roles, originally built in the dialogues they always have been honed and witty.
  British intelligence
  

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  From chronicling the life of the writer, where he talks about how art is inextricably linked with human life:
  Thoughts of Maugham messaged to descendants
  

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  Written in line with the traditional "novel of education", he was distinguished by remarkable openness and the utmost sincerity in revealing the drama of the soul. Theodore Dreiser was fascinated by the novel and Maugham called "a great artist", and his book – "creation of genius", comparing it to a Beethoven Symphony.
  «Of human bondage»
  Famous works
  

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  The main character of the book is Philip Carey, a lame orphan, whose fate is traced from an unhappy childhood to his student years. Philip painfully seeking his calling and trying to figure out what is the meaning of life. He will experience a lot of frustration and give up many illusions, before he will be able to find your answer to this question.
  

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  The novel consists of 80 small chapters, each of which is changing the narrative that allows to observe the dynamics of events. This novel tells us about the love feelings, experiences, overcome them and the difficult formation of the soul and the nature of the main character. The novel "the Painted veil" is never listed among the most significant books of the writer, but it has not lost its significance in the works of S. Maugham
  «The Painted Veil»
  

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  In 1944 he published the novel Maugham “The razors Edge". In fact, it was the result of his thinking about the meaning of life.
  The postwar decade was also fruitful for a writer. Maugham first turned to the historical novel genre. In the books "Then and now" and "Catalina" past appeared before readers as a lesson of modernity. Maugham was thinking about power and its impact on human health, the policy of the rulers and the patriotism. These latest novels have been written in his new manner, and were deeply tragic.
  End of life
  

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  15 December 1965 William Somerset Maugham died at the age of 92 in the French town of Saint-Jean-cap-Ferrat from pneumonia. His ashes were scattered under the wall of the Maugham Library, the King's school in Canterbury
  Death
  

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  Useful resources:
  1.The text of the article "Somerset Maugham", In the author. Sidorenko
  
  2.The materials of the site "Wikipedia"
  
  3.The text of the article "William Somerset Maugham: the edge of talents", by H. E. Ionnis
  
  4. V. Skorodenko. Somerset Maugham
  
  5. Guseva E. Maugham and his characters
  
  6. Kachalina Y. way of Life of William Somerset Maugham
  7.Michalski N. P. Foreign writers
  
  8.Morgan T. Somerset Maugham. Biography
  
  9. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31326.Theatre
  

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