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Classic short story by the master of the genre.

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A prolific writer, Maugham produced novels, short stories, plays, and an autobiographical novel, "Of Human Bondage." Although he remains popular for his novels and short stories, when he was alive his plays, now dated, were also popular, and in 1908 four of his plays ran simultaneously. Maugham died in Nice, France, on December 16, 1965.

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William Somerset Maugham. Longman, 1988 - English language - 56 pages. Other editions - View all. A Marriage of Convenience and Other Stories ... A Marriage of Convenience and Other Stories William Somerset Maugham No preview available - 1992. Bibliographic information. Title:

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W. Somerset Maugham. This is an Intermediate Level title in a series of ELT readers comprising a wide range of stories - some original and some simplified - from modern and classic novels, and designed to appeal to all age-groups, tastes and cultures. The books are divided into five Starter Level, with about 300 basic words; Beginner Level (600

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It was noted first by Holden, Philip. "An Undocumented Short Story by W. Somerset Maugham." Notes and Queries 58.4 (2011): 590-91. ... Seventeen Lost Stories "A Marriage of Convenience" Illustrated London News 23 June - although Stott puts it as printed in 1908 in D12,

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A marriage of convenience and other stories by William Somerset Maugham, 1988, Heinemann edition, in English. It looks like you're offline. Donate ♥. Čeština (cs) Deutsch (de) English (en) Español (es) Français (fr) Hrvatski (hr) ... A marriage of convenience and other stories William Somerset Maugham

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A Marriage of Convenience and Other Stories (Heinemann Guided Readers) Paperback - January 1, 1995 by W. Somerset Maugham (Author), R. D. Hill (Author) See all formats and editions

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THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES OF W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM, VOL. I Preface. This is the first volume of my collected short stories. In my early youth I wrote a number, but they are so immature that I have preferred not to reprint them. A few are in a book that has long remained out of print, a few others are scattered in various magazines.

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The complete short stories of W. Somerset Maugham by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965. Publication date 1932 Topics Short stories, English Publisher Doubleday Collection internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English Volume 1 . 1. East and West -- 2.

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Authors: D. R. Hill (Author), Paul Sullivan (Illustrator), W. Somerset Maugham Summary : Five strange characters and their unusual lives: A Frenchman who has to find a wife quickly, German Harry lives alone on the island of Trebucket, Wilson, who has decided to die when he is sixty, Mabel, who follows her fianc e around the world, an American

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65 short stories by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965. Publication date 1985 Topics Short stories, Nouvelles, short stories ... A woman of fifty -- The lotus eater -- The wash-tub -- A man with conscience -- Winter cruise -- A marriage of convenience -- Mirage -- The letter -- The portrait of a gentleman -- Raw material

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This book has got five different stories. The first one " A Marriage Of Convenience", is about a Frenchman, The French Colonial Governor, who had to find a wife quickly for his job, and he fell in love with her. The second one, "German Harry" tells the story of a man who lived alone on the island of Trebucket.

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A marriage of convenience-W. Somerset Maugham. A Frenchman needed to find a wife to marry her. One of his friends said to him that she had a cousin who had an important job in the Government and the Frenchman needed this. So he decided to ask her and they spoke about marriage. The woman was not sure about the answer but after thinking about it

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A Marriage of Convenience by Somerset Maugham I love Somerset Maugham's short stories because of the way he presents conventional wisdom in very plain yet refreshing language. Here's one quotation from "A Marriage of Convenience," a short story about how an ugly french governer married his wife in a record time:

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William Somerset Maugham A Marriage of Convenience Summary. The narrator, in his youth, had a desire to take a voyage on a Spanish cargo-boat. He found a shabby steamer in Cadiz bound for Valencia, Tarragona, and Tunis. The narrator decided to take the journey and boarded the cargo-boat. He traveled along the Spanish coast and eventually

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The Complete Short Stories Vol 3 by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965. Publication date 1973 Publisher London : Book Club Associates Collection internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English Volume 3 . Access-restricted-item

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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965) was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. Born in the British Embassy in Paris, where his father worked, Maugham was an orphan by the age of ten. He was raised by an uncle, who tried to persuade the youngster to become an accountant or parson; Maugham instead trained as a doctor, although he never practised professionally, as his first novel

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Collected short stories. Vol. 2 by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965. Publication date 2002 Topics Short stories, English ... Winter cruise -- Mabel -- Masterson -- Princess September -- A marriage of convenience -- Mirage -- The letter -- The outstation -- The portrait of a gentleman -- Raw material -- Straight flush -- The

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This final classic collection reveals Somerset Maugham's unique talent for exposing and exploring the bitter realities of human relationships in tales of love, infidelity, passion and prejudice. The stories range from "The Lotus Eater" where a man envisions a life of bliss in the Mediterranean, to the astringent tales of "The Outstation" and "The Back of Beyond" in Malaya and

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A Marriage of Convenience / 839 . Mirage / 848 . The Letter / 861 . The Portrait of a Gentleman / 883 . ... INTRODUCTION . William Somerset Maugham was born in 1874 and educated at the Kings ' ... compactness is part of the method used by such short story writers as Maugham. As he put it in his own distinctive way, such a writer ' seeks to

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W. Somerset Maugham. William Somerset Maugham [n 2] CH ( / mɔːm / MAWM; 25 January 1874 - 16 December 1965) [n 1] was an English writer, known for his plays, novels and short stories. Born in Paris, where he spent his first ten years, Maugham was schooled in England and went to a German university. He became a medical student in London and

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But always aiming for compression in his own work, Maugham ignored his rival's tremendous achievement as a novelist and criticised him for being too long-winded: "Conrad rarely wrote anything but short stories, but being a writer of exuberant verbosity, he often made them as long as most novels. He needed sea-room.

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A Marriage of Convenience and Other Stories by W. Somerset Maugham is an Intermediate Level title in a series of ELT readers comprising a wide range of short stories. The story revolves around a Frenchman who needs to find a wife to marry her, and one of his friends suggests that she has a cousin with an important job in the Government.