THE MINISTRY OF HIGHER AND SECONDARY SPECIAL EDUCATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN
URGENCH STATE UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF FOREIGN PHILOLOGY
Course work
ON THE ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE
THEME: William Somerset Maugham. "The man with the scar"
Supervisor:
Yusupova Nargiza
(senior teacher) of The English Language and Literature department
Done by:
G'ayratova Kamola
Group 1907 student of the The Foreign Language and Literature speciality
Urganch 2021 Contents
BASIC FACTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR
CHRONOLOGICAL BIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHOR
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF THE AUTHOR
KEY FACTS OF THE WORK
USED LITERATURE
APPENDIX
ENTRY 1. BASIC FACTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Full name
William Somerset Maugham
Pen name
W. Somerset Maugham
Born
25 January 1874
Paris, France
Died
16 December 1965
Nice, Alpes -Maritimes ,France
Nationality
French
Education
King’s School, Canterbury. Heidelberg, Germany where he read philosophy and literature. St. Thomas’s Medical School, London.
Occupation
Playwright, novelist, short story writer, doctor
Genre(s)
Drama, short story, novel
Notable work(s)
Liza of Lambeth (1897), Lady Frederick (1907), The Magician (1908), Of Human Bondage (1915)
Award(s), Prize(s)
Quotation(s)
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
Uzbek (and Russian) contemporaries
Abdulla Qahhor, Cho'lpon, Oybek, Fyodor Dostoyevskiy Mixail Sholoxov ,Nabokov Vladimir Vladimirovich
Family of the author
Marriage
Syrie Welcome mer. 1917 div.1929
Children
Mary Elizabeth Maugham
ENTRY 2. CHRONOLOGICAL BIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHOR
YEARS
DESCRIPTION
1882
Death of his beloved mother of Tuberculosis
1886
Orphaned at the age of 12. Somerset-Maugham goes to live with his aunt and uncle in Whitstable Kent. This sudden change brought a stammer which was to cause him much grief at school.
1891
Somerset-Maugham spends nine months in Heidelberg attending lectures.
1897
He qualifies as a Doctor. He works in a medical practice in the London slums which gave him material for “Liza of Lambeth” which was graphic in its detail. He never practiced medicine after that and relied on his income of £150 left to him by his father. He travels to Seville for nine months and writes a travel book.
1903
“A Man of Honour” is performed by the Stage Society in London.
1907
His fortunes turn upwards when his play “Lady Frederick” becomes a huge success at the Royal Court Theatre despite it being a last minute inclusion in their programme.
1908
Although Somerset-Maugham’s initial attempts to get his plays published failed he has four works running simultaneously on the London stage by 1908.
1911
He begins writing “Of Human Bondage”.
1914
During the first year of the First world War he serves with a Red Cross unit in Northern France. He then becomes an agent in Military Intelligence and moves to Geneva.5
1915
Publication of his autobiographical novel “Of Human Bondage”. He travels to the USA and Tahiti in the company of his boyfriend Gerald Haxton but marries Syrie Wellcome on his return.
1927
After his divorce he settles in the south of France at the Villa Mauresque on Cap Ferrat, near Nice. He filled the house with antiques and it becomes a centre for visiting by the great and the good
1928
“Ashenden” is based on his experiences in Russia.
1930
He writes what is considered his masterpiece “Cakes and Ale”.
1939
Somerset-Maugham becomes a British Agent again during the Second World War
1940
He flees to the United States where he stays until 1946 where he was much taken with mysticism.
1944
Death of Gerald Haxton.
1946
He returns to the Villa Mauresque in France where he lives with Alan Searle.
1950
A film version of “Encore” is produced with an introduction by the author himself. He has by now become one of the best read and loved writers but still does not receive great critical acclaim as he was accused of being predictable and shallow in his work.
1954
Somerset-Maugham is made a Companion of Honour.
1962
His book “Looking Back” contains an attack on his ex-wife, now deceased, which lost him a lot of friends.
ENTRY 3. THE COMPLETE WORKS OF THE AUTHOR
Years
Full title of the work
Type of work
1987
Liza of Lambeth
novel
1898
The making of Saint
novel
1899
Orientations
Short story collection
1901
The Hero
novel
1902
Mrs Croddock
novel
1904
The Merry-Go-Round
novel
1906
The Bishop's Apron
novel
1908
The Explorer
novel
1908
The Magician
novel
1915
Of Human Bondage
novel
1919
The Moon and Sixpence
novel
1921
The Trembling of Leaf: Little stories of the South Sea Islands
short story collections
1925
The Painted Veil
novel
1926
The Casuarina Tree:Six stories
short story collection comprises 6 story
1928
Ashenden:Or the British Agent
short story collection
1930
Cakes and Ale: or, the Skeleton in the cupboard
novel
1931
Six stories written in the First Person Singular
short story collection
1932
The Book Bag
short story collection
1932
The Narrow Corner
novel
1933
Ah King
short story collection
1934
The Judgement Seat
short story collection
1936
Cosmopolitions
short story collection
1937
Theatre
novel
1939
Christmas Holiday
novel
1939
Princess September and the Nightingale
short story collection
1940
The Mixture as Before
short story collection
1941
Up at the Villa
novel
1942
The Hour Before the Dawn
novel
1944
The Unconquered
short story collection
1944
The Razor's Edge
novel
1946
Then and Now
novel
1947
Creatures of Circumstance
short story collection
1948
Catalina
novel
1948
Quartet
short story collection
1950
Trio
short story collection by Mauhgam, screen adaptation by Maugham, R.C Sherriiff and Noel Langley
1903
A Man of Honour
play
1907
Lady Frederick
play
1908
Jack Straw
play
1908
Mrs Dot
play
1908
The Explorer
play
1909
Penelope
play
1909
The Noble Spaiard
play
1909
Smith
play
1910
The tenth Man
play
1910
Lanoud Gentry
play
1911
Loaves and Fishes
play
1913
The Land of Promise
play
1916
The Unattainable
play
1917
Our Betters
play
1919
Ceaser's Wife
play
1920
The Unknown
play
1921
The Circle
play
1922
East of Suez
play
1926
The Constant wife
play
1927
The Letter
play
1928
The Sacred Flame
play
1930
The Bread Winner
play
1932
For Services Rendered
play
1933
Sheppey
play
ENTRY 4. KEY FACTS OF THE WORK
Full title
The man with a scar
Author
William Somerset Maugham
Type of work
Story
Genre
Short story
Language
English
Time & place
Written
1946 France
Date of first publication
1946
Narrator
Author (a man at the pub)
Setting (time)
The man with scar was
Setting (place)
The Palace Hotel at Guatemala city in Central America.
Themes, motifs
In The Man with the Scar by W. Somerset Maugham we have the theme of perception, curiosity, love, connection, loss, identity and struggle. ... This could be important as Maugham may be highlighting how an individual can be misled by their perceptions.
Translation into Uzbek
"Chandiqli kishi "
Translation into Russian
"Человек со шрамом "
ENTRY 5. Your Thoughts
Answer the following questions
1
What did you learn from the book?
Personally I learned that the feelings are the most important things in our life and I can say if people loose their close person they can loose the meaning of life too.
2
Why did the author choose such setting?
I can't imagine this story without this setting because only it is suitable here. If the author choose different ways and situations were changed, maybe The man with scar wasn't famous like today.
3
Why did the author finish the work in the way he did it?
During the people are reading this story they all think that the scar which is described at the beginning appeared because of serious things maybe at the rebellion. But author choose different way then readers come across unusual ending And it causes that the story is more interesting.
4
What questions would you ask the author if you had such chance?
How we can understand a death of the man with the scar's wife? Why did you choose this situation? Why you didn't write about a couples happiness in the end?
5
Would you recommend reading this book? Why or why not?
Sure. I read this story two times and it effected my mind. Furthermore after reading I changed my world outlook. So I woul recommend to read "The man with the scar"
USED LITERATURE
1."The Somerset Maugham Awards". The Society of Authors. Retrieved 24 May 2021. 2."Maugham, (William) Somerset, (25 Jan. 1874–16 Dec. 1965), Fellow Library of Congress, Washington; Hon. Mem. National Society of Arts and Letters, USA; Hon. Senator of Heidelberg University, 1961". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u48724. Retrieved 13 June 2021. 3."W. Somerset Maugham", The Literature Network. 4. a b c "Mr. Somerset Maugham". The Times (56507). 17 December 1965. p. 17. 5. Maugham, Somerset 1962. 6. Morgan, 1980, p. 4. 7. Maugham, Robin 1977. 8.Outlines (1823). Outlines of character, the great character, the English character [&c.] by a member of the Philomathic institution. 9. a b Hastings 2010. 10.Meyers, 2004, p. 11.
