On Jan 10, 4:18 am, "Petr Hrubis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Eva,
>
> I'm so busy at the moment that I cannot go through the text and correct it,
> but one of those more apparent mistakes seems to be the present perfect
> tense in the following sentence of yours. Notice that, having died in 1965,
> the writer doesn't live any more. Therefore, I suppose, simple past tense
> should be used there: "He created" rather than "He HAS created". I would say
> more if I had more time. Sorry, I hope someone else helps you soon, I must
> go now!
>
> Best,
>
> P.
>
> 2008/1/9, Eva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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> > William Somerset Maugham (1874--1965), born in Paris, is one of the
> > most popular writers in British literature. He has created about 20
> > novels, more than 100 short stories, 32 plays as well as lots of
> > memoirs, travel essays, comments etc., all his life. Maugham has shown
> > his versatility in all the literary fields except poem. what's more, a
> > number of his novels have been adapted to movies. The income from
> > these successful movie adaptations and his writings allow Maugham to
> > live a very comfortable life. Maugham's creation period spans as long
> > as 65 years and his works are very popular around the world. However,
> > despite his popularity among ordinary readers all over the world, he
> > has not received the due recognition from the literary critics or his
> > peers for many of them hold that he is just a writer in"the very first
> > row of the second raters". (maugham The Summing Up, 1938)Maugham's
> > main works include Of Human Bondage, which is considered as his
> > representative work, The Moon and Sixpence, The Razor's Edege, Cakes
> > and Ale and so on. It can be said safely that Maugham's works have the
> > strongest exotic flavor among British writers. Due to his hobby,
> > Maugham all his life has visited lots of countries and regions such as
> > Russia, South America, the South Pacific islands and so on. Maugham is
> > also very interested in the Oriental culture especially Chinese
> > culture and he visited China in 1999 with his life-long companion
> > Gerald Haxton. Based on his travel around China, he has created the
> > travel essays collection On a Chinese Sreen, the novel The Painted
> > Veil , the short story The Letter which is latter adapted to the play
> > The Letter, and the play East of Suez. Other works related to China or
> > Chinese people include Of Human Bondage, short stories Ah King, The
> > Narrow Corner, A Casual Affair, The Door of Opportunity and so on. By
> > adopting Imagology of comparative literature, this thesis will
> > research the images of China in Maugham works. Meanwhile, Said's
> > Orientalism theory is also adopted as an auxiliary theory in this
> > thesis. Since the images of China are mainly depicted and reflected in
> > On a Chinese Sreen, this thesis will focus on this work.- Hide quoted text -
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Thank you so much.
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