英美短篇小说鉴赏

工商学院国际文化交流学部课程考核答题纸（用于期末论文）

2010------ 2011

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2

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年级

09

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专业

英语

姓名

陶杰

学号

2009491148

考核科目

英美短篇小说鉴赏

课程号

50d13093

课序号

01

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必修

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Appreciation of W. Somerset Maugham

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Contents

Chapter One: Synopsis of the author

Chapter Two: Summary of

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Chapter Three: Background information

Chapter Four:

The figure model and Implied meaning

References

Chapter One: Synopsis of the author

W. Somerset Maugham is a Popular British novelist, playwright, short-story writer and the

highest-paid author. He was born on 25

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January 1874

in Paris, the sixth and youngest son of the solicitor

to the British embassy. Maugham learned French as his native tongue. At the age of 10, Maugham was

orphaned and sent to England to live with his uncle, the Reverend Henry MacDonald Maugham.

Educated at King's School, Canterbury, where he developed a stammer that he never outgrew, and

Heidelberg University, Maugham then studied six years medicine in London. He qualified in 1897 as

doctor from St. Thomas' medical school, but abandoned medicine after the success of his first novels and

plays. Maugham lived in Paris for ten years as a struggling young author. In 1897 appeared his first novel,

LIZA OF LAMBETH, which drew on his experiences of attending women in childbirth. Maugham

named his daughter and only child, Elizabeth 'Liza' Mary Maugham, after the title character. His first play,

A MAN OF HONOUR, was produced in 1903. Four of his dramas ran simultaneously in London in 1904.

Maugham's breakthrough novel was the semi-autobiographical OF HUMAN BONDAGE (1915), which

is usually considered his outstanding achievement. The story follows the childhood, youth, and early

manhood of Philip Carey, who is born with a clubfoot. Philip never knew his father and his mother only

for a brief space. He is raised by a religious aunt and uncle, but the real process of his education, after the

end of an unsatisfactory social life, begins in Heidelberg. Philip goes to Paris to study art, and at the age

of thirty he qualifies as a doctor. Finally he marries Sally Athelny, a normal, healthy, happy girl.

During

World War I he worked as a secret agent and in 1928 settled in Cap Ferret in France, from where he made

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