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    I caught sight of her at the play and in answer to her beckoning I went over during the interval and sat down beside her. It was long since I had last seen her and if someone had not mentioned her name‚ I hardly think I would have recognized her.   She addressed me brightly. “Well‚ its many years since we first met.   How time does fly!   We’re none of us getting any younger.   Do you remember the first time I saw you?   You asked me to luncheon.” Did I remember? It was twenty years ago and I was

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    There was a man called Christopher Columbus And he grew up in Italy. Later he learned to be a navigator And how to sail a ship at sea In fourteen hundred ninety two Columbus sailed the ocean blue For Spain to gain An Indies shortcut that was new How could he find a Shortcut to the Indies‚ Bring silk and spices quickly home? He needed someone with a lot of money. He couldn’t do it all alone. In fourteen hundred ninety two Columbus sailed the ocean blue For Spain to gain An Indies

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    Analysis of Woolf’s Kew Gardens Oakland‚ John. “Woolf’s Kew Gardens.” English Studies 68.3 (1987): 264-274 In the article “Virginia Woolf’s Kew Gardens” Oakland is trying to examine a short story that few people took the time to do. He says‚ “It is not an expression of meaningless life but‚ on the contrary‚ reveals a harmonious‚ organic optimism.” (1) Since she chose to make it such a short piece of work‚ it fits perfectly with her style of writing. She doesn’t make the theme the subject matter

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    Поиск: Учебники-онлайн учебники и методические материалы Материалы по темам: Автомобильные эксплуатационные материалы О технологических‚ экономических и организационных системах поддержания машин в технически исправленном состоянии www.uchebniki-online.com/list/2 Финансы и налоги Включается в состав междисциплинарного экзамена‚ который сдают студенты экономических специальностей в рамках государственного образовательного стандарта www.uchebniki-online.com/list/3 Бухгалтерский

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    First of all I want to begin with the narrative perspective. In the short story “Mr. Know-All” by William Somerset Maugham there is a first person narrator‚ who takes an active part in the story. He is a very important character. It is not easy to tell whether he is a minor or a major character. On the one hand he is a major character because the way he presents Mr. Kelada influences the reader a lot. On the other hand he is just a minor character because he is only the presenter of Mr. Kelada. The

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    William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) is one of the best known writers of the present day. He was not only a novelist‚ but also one of the most successful dramatists and short-story writer. The short-story “Louise” was published in 1936. This story is about the woman who used to get everything what she wants using her “weak heart”. The gist of the problem raised by the author in this story is relationship between people. This problem is always urgent. The main idea conveyed by the author is that

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    Contents Introduction…………………………………………………………………………...3 I. The theoretical aspect of concept………………………………………………….6 1.1. Concept as the basic term of the cognitive linguistics…………………………...6 1.2. The notion of theatre…………………………………………………………….17 II.THEATRE concept in the semantic space of W.S.Maugham’s “Theatre”…………………………………………………………………………….20 2.1. Theatre as it is viewed by W.S.Maugham………………………………………20 2.2. Theatre as people for W.S.Maugham’s…………………………………………23 2.3. The place of tropes in W.S.Maugham’s

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    The Analysis of The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin 1. Information about the author: Kate was formally educated at the Academy of the Sacred Heart in St. Louis where she kept a commonplace book "in which the thoughtful adolescent recorded themes that appear in her later fiction‚ among them women’s roles and the conflict between desire and duty.  Kate began her career as a fiction writer in 1888. The literary trend she belongs to realistic fiction. The mine literary works are "A Point at

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    several descriptions of the Tahiti ‚ a south pacific island which is famous for its magic beauty‚ friendly people and for this reason people around the world enjoy to visit it. This story was narrated and written by the novelist William Somerset Maugham in one of his many long trips to the Pacific Island . This text is about a narrator who visited the Tahiti Island due to a hazard journey. In this island it was living one of the most famous artist who was Charles Strickland‚ which came

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    how they look before getting to know them. The messageof the story can perhaps best be summed up in the English proverb: You should not judge a book by its cover. The author of “Mr. Know-All”‚ W Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) was a popular English playwright‚ novelist and short story writer. Maugham is said to have been the highest paid author in the world during the 1930s. He travelled extensively‚ and was one of the best known writers of travel stories during the inter-war years. This story‚ which

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