Middle-aged woman, a star of the London theatre, beautiful, fulfilled. But she thinks that something is missing in her life and falls in love with a very young guy, who is mesmerized by her fame. Later the young lover meets a girl of his age and falls in love with her, leaving behind his older paramour. The story is as old as this world. What makes it so different from other million love stories? The talent of its writer and the truly wonderful finale. Maugham was able to turn the whole thing upside down. And it's not one of those sticky-sweet novels, this one has a strong character, which makes it truly interesting to read.
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Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 178 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-521-70975-0. Are you preparing for the IELTS test? Do you want to practice all the vocabulary you need to be confident in the test? Cambridge Vocabulary for IELTS covers the vocabulary needed by your aiming for band 6 or above in the IELTS test. The book provides you with practice of test tasks from each paper. It...
M.: Higher school, 1981. — 295 p. Introduction- General Notes on Style and Stylistics , general Notes on Functional Styles of Language , varieties of Language , meaning from a Stylistic Point of View ,stylistic Classification of the English Vocabulary, Special Colloquial Vocabulary . Phonetic Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices. Lexical Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices...
London, Heinemann\Octopus, 1988. The book includes 65 short stories by W. S. Maugham (The Fall of Edward Barnard, Rain, Honololu). Rain. The Fall of Edward Barnard. Honolulu. The Ant and the Grasshopper. The Pool. Mackintosh. The Three Fat Women of Antibes. The Facts of Life. Gigolo and Gigolette. The Voice of the Turtle. The Unconquered. The Escape. Mr Know-All. The Romantic...
In Theatre, W. Somerset Maugham–the author of the classic novels Of Human Bondage and Up at the Villa–introduces us to Julia Lambert, a woman of breathtaking poise and talent whose looks have stood by her forty-six years. She is one of the greatest actresses England–so good, in fact, that perhaps she never stops acting. It seems that noting can ruffle her satin feathers, until...
Middle-aged woman, a star of the London theatre, beautiful, fulfilled. But she thinks that something is missing in her life and falls in love with a very young guy, who is mesmerized by her fame. Later the young lover meets a girl of his age and falls in love with her, leaving behind his older paramour. The story is as old as this world. What makes it so different from other...
Tim Falla, Paul A Davies 2nd Ed. — Oxford University Press, 2012. — 133 p. — 978-0-19-455287-5 PDF quality - originally e-Book (not a scan of a book). There is no text layer. Audio files for the course are here. Audio quality: MP3 (96 Kbps, 48.0 KHz, mono). A new, refreshed edition of the five-level English course for teenagers, with a clear structure, supported approach to...
