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• Born on 25, JanuLairfye,1974 in Paris
• His father was an English lawyer and solicitor to the British Embassy in Paris. His elder brother Viscount Maugham enjoyed a distinguished legal career
• His grandfather was also an English Lawyer and a cofounder of the English law society
• after losing both his parents by the age of 10, raised by a paternal uncle, who was emotionally cold and cruel (self-righteous)
来自百度文库
"Literary Ambulance Drivers"
• A remarkable number of well known authors were ambulance drivers during World War I. Among them were Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, E.E. Cummings, and W. Somerset Maugham.
• By 1914 Maugham was famous, with 10 plays produced and 10 novels published.
• Too old to enlist when World War I broke out, Maugham served in France as a member of the British Red Cross's so-called "Literary Ambulance Drivers“
英美经典短篇小说选读6
• William Somerset Maugham(1874-1965) 《英美经典短篇小说阅读教程》陆道夫主编
William Somerset Maugham(1874-1965)
William Somerset Maugham(1874-1965) & The Luncheon
• For a public man of Maugham's generation, being openly gay was impossible. Whether his own orientation disgusted him (as it did many at a time when homosexuality was widely considered a moral failing as well as illegal) or whether he was trying to disguise his
• Studied literature, philosophy and German at Heidelberg University at sixteen
• Not wanting to become a lawyer like other men in his family, persuaded into the profession of medicine and spent another five years studying medicine at St Thomas' Hospital in Lambeth, London
• In his sixties, spent most of time of World War II in the United States, first in Hollywood and later in the South.
• In 1946 he returned to his villa in France, where he lived, interrupted by frequent and long travels, until his death.
leanings, Maugham wrote disparagingly以贬抑的口吻
of the gay artist.
• Maugham's homosexuality is believed to have uniquely shaped his fiction. (Since he tended to see attractive women as sexual rivals, he often gave his women characters sexual needs and appetites, in a way quite unusual for authors of his time)
•an English playwright •novelist •short story writer •one of the most popular writers of his era •reputedly the highest paid author during the 1930s
Maugham’s Early
Experience after being famous
• The first run of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth (1897), sold out so rapidly that he gave up medicine to write full time.
• One thing Maugham did while idling near Dunkirk when serving the driving was correct the proofs of his novel Of Human Bondage.
• His father was an English lawyer and solicitor to the British Embassy in Paris. His elder brother Viscount Maugham enjoyed a distinguished legal career
• His grandfather was also an English Lawyer and a cofounder of the English law society
• after losing both his parents by the age of 10, raised by a paternal uncle, who was emotionally cold and cruel (self-righteous)
来自百度文库
"Literary Ambulance Drivers"
• A remarkable number of well known authors were ambulance drivers during World War I. Among them were Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, E.E. Cummings, and W. Somerset Maugham.
• By 1914 Maugham was famous, with 10 plays produced and 10 novels published.
• Too old to enlist when World War I broke out, Maugham served in France as a member of the British Red Cross's so-called "Literary Ambulance Drivers“
英美经典短篇小说选读6
• William Somerset Maugham(1874-1965) 《英美经典短篇小说阅读教程》陆道夫主编
William Somerset Maugham(1874-1965)
William Somerset Maugham(1874-1965) & The Luncheon
• For a public man of Maugham's generation, being openly gay was impossible. Whether his own orientation disgusted him (as it did many at a time when homosexuality was widely considered a moral failing as well as illegal) or whether he was trying to disguise his
• Studied literature, philosophy and German at Heidelberg University at sixteen
• Not wanting to become a lawyer like other men in his family, persuaded into the profession of medicine and spent another five years studying medicine at St Thomas' Hospital in Lambeth, London
• In his sixties, spent most of time of World War II in the United States, first in Hollywood and later in the South.
• In 1946 he returned to his villa in France, where he lived, interrupted by frequent and long travels, until his death.
leanings, Maugham wrote disparagingly以贬抑的口吻
of the gay artist.
• Maugham's homosexuality is believed to have uniquely shaped his fiction. (Since he tended to see attractive women as sexual rivals, he often gave his women characters sexual needs and appetites, in a way quite unusual for authors of his time)
•an English playwright •novelist •short story writer •one of the most popular writers of his era •reputedly the highest paid author during the 1930s
Maugham’s Early
Experience after being famous
• The first run of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth (1897), sold out so rapidly that he gave up medicine to write full time.
• One thing Maugham did while idling near Dunkirk when serving the driving was correct the proofs of his novel Of Human Bondage.