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Maugham, William Somerset - The Force Of Circumstance
William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was an English writer, physician and agent in the MI6.
Maugham wrote several short stories and novels. Of Human Bondage (1915) is widely regarded as his masterpiece.
The short story “The Force of Circumstance”, which was first published in 1951 in The Complete Short Stories is one of Maugham’s Malaysian stories.
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Hanif Kureishi: My Son the Fanatic - Interpretation
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Hanif Kureishi (*1954) was born in London to a Pakistani father and an English mother. He has published numerous novels and short stories, but he has also written plays as well as screenplays. In his work he often touches upon topics like nationalism, immigration and race.
The short story “My Son the Fanatic” was first published in Many Voices Many Cultures, Multicultural British Short Stories in 1997.
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- Background Information: Muslims in Great Britain
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Rushdie, Salman - The Free Radio
Salman Rushdie was born in India in 1947, but moved to Pakistan with his family at the age of 17. In 1968 he graduated from King’s College, Cambridge. After his graduation he stayed in Britain, working first as an actor and advertising copywriter, before becoming a writer himself. Currently Rushdie lives in New York.
Rushdie has published a number of works, the most famous probably being The Satanic Verses (published in 1988), a reinterpretation of the story of the Prophet Mohammed. It was banned in a number of countries with a predominantly Muslim population. Rushdie was even forced into hiding due to a life-threat by the Iranian government, which was only repealed in 1998.
Background Information: Birth Control in India
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Lessing, Doris - The Second Hut
Doris Lessing was born in 1919 to British parents, who moved to what is now Zimbabwe in 1925. After the end of her second marriage in 1949, Lessing moved to Britain to become a writer. She published numerous novels, short stories and essays. Lessing is now regarded as one of the most important post-war writers in English. In 2007 she won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The short story “The Second Hut” was published in 1951 is the short story collecting This Was the Old Chief’s Country.
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- Background Information: Boers in Africa
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Spark, Muriel - The Black Madonna
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Muriel Spark (1918 – 2006) was a widely acclaimed writer in Great Britain, where she lived and worked, but remains relatively unknown in America.
During her career she published numerous works – novel, poems, short stories and biographies. Spark’s works, especially her fiction, are largely quite eccentric, which might account for the fact that she was never successful in the USA. The short story “The Black Madonna” was first published in 1958 in the short story collection “The Go-Away Bird and Other Stories”.
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Conrad, Joseph - An Outpost of Progress
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Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) was an Englishspeaking author who ori-ginally came from Poland but spent most of his life in Britain.
He became famous for his numerous novels, short stories and essays. This paper deals with his well-known short story “An Outpost of Progress”.
The short story will be analyzed and additional remarks may help to understand this work by Conrad.
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- Interpretation of the short story, additional remarks
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Orwell, George - Shooting an Elephant
George Orwell is one of the most important British writers of the 20th century.
His works “Animal Farm” and “1984” made him famous all over the world; this material deals with his famous work “Shooting an Elephant” (1936)
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·Interpretation, additional remarks
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Poe, Edgar Allan - Die Maske des roten Todes
Prinz Prospero liebt das Bizarre. Er besitzt mehrere prächtige Schlösser und doch hat er ein großes Problem: Die Pest, die sehr viele seiner Untertanen sterben lässt.Sein Rettungsversuch besteht darin, tausend seiner Untertanen mit in sein Schloss zu nehmen. Dort sollen sie, aber vor allem der egoistische Prinz, in Sicherheit sein.Ob sein Plan aufgeht, entscheidet der rote Tod, der am Ende der Geschichte seine Maske fallen lassen wird.
Eine ausführliche Interpretation der Situation, des Verlaufs, und der Wirkung der Geschichte.Transparente Interpretation mit Zwischenüberschriften und Arbeitsanleitungen und Hilfen. Am Anfang wird die Geschich-te in den wesentlichen Punkten zusammengefasst. Am Ende erfolgt ein allgemeiner Deutungsversuch.
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Hemingway, Ernest Miller - The Gambler, the Nun and the Radio
Earnest Hemingway (1899-1961) was one of the most important American writers.
Besides being an author, he also was a reporter and a war correspondent. In 1918 he volunteered for the American Field Service.
He was stationed at the North Italian border and the border between Germany and France, where he was seriously wounded.
The short story The Gambler, the Nun and the Radio was published in 1933. In it, Hemingway incorporates his own experiences during a stay in hospital in 1930, but abstracts from them and has his main character reflect upon the “opium for the people” with a radio as his only connection to the outside.
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Hemingway, Ernest Miller - Old Man at the Bridge
Earnest Hemingway (1899-1961) was one of the most important American writers.
Besides being an author, he also was a reporter and a war correspondent. In 1918 he volunteered for the American Field Service.
He was stationed at the North Italian border and the border between Germany and France, where he was seriously wounded.
The short story Old Man at the Bridge takes place during the Spanish Civil War in the late 1930s. It reflects Hemingway’s own experience in war. The story was published in the volume The Fifth Column and the Firth Forty-Nine Stories in 1938.
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Ngugi wa Thiong’o - A Meeting in the Dark (1974)
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The Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong’o (*1938) is one of the most important and most influential voices in modern African literature. His first novel was published in 1964, since then he has produced various other novels, short stories, plays as well as literary and political essays. He has lived in Kenya, Uganda, the USA and England. Ngugi is an outspoken critic of post-colonial Kenyan politics.
The short story A Meeting in the Dark was published in 1975 in the book Secret Lives, a collection of short stories Ngugi had written in the previous 12 years.
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Rushdie, Salman - Good Advice is Rarer Than Rubies
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Salman Rushdie was born in India in 1947, but moved to Pakistan with his family at the age of 17.
Rushdie has published a number of works (e.g. The Satanic Verses, 1988), a reinterpretation of the story of the Prophet Mohammed. It was banned in a number of countries with a predominantly Muslim population. Rushdie was even forced into hiding due to a life-threat by the Iranian government, which was only repealed in 1998. The short story “Good Advice is Rarer Than Rubies” was first published in the New Yorker, and again in 1994 in the book East, West.
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Background Information: Pakistan
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Desai, Anita - A Devoted Son
Anita Desai (*1937) is an Indian novelist and short story writer. She was born in Mussoorie, India, and was educated at Delhi University. Currently she lives in the USA.
In much of Desai’s writing tensions between family members play an integral part. This is true for “A Devoted Son” as well.
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Mukherjee, Bharati - Nostalgia
Bharati Mukherjee was born in 1940 in Calcutta, India. After her graduation from university in India in 1961, Mukherjee moved to the USA, where she earned her Ph.D. Currently Mukherjee teaches at the University of California.
Both Mukherjee and her husband are writers. In addition to their individual work they have produced two books together. The short story “Nostalgia” was first published in 1985 within the short story collection Darkness.
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