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Theme of the Week: W. Somerset Maugham

William Somerset Maugham was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest paid author during the 1930s.

His most notable works include:

Of Human Bondage

Author: W. Somerset Maugham

ISBN: 9780099284963

After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as would-be artist, Philip Carey settles in London to train as a doctor. And that is where he meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a formative, tortured and masochistic affair which very nearly ruins him.

Price: 10,9 GEL

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The Moon and Sixpence

Author: W. Somerset Maugham

ISBN: 9780099284765

Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of family, duty and honor gives him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads to an obsession which carries severe implications.

Price: 10,9 GEL

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The Summing Up

Author: W. Somerset Maugham

ISBN: 9780099286899

The Summing Up is a literary memoir by W. Somerset Maugham, written when he was 64 years old, first published in 1938. It covered his life from 1890-1938.

Price: 10,9 GEL

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Theatre

Author: W. Somerset Maugham

ISBN: 9780099286837

Julia Lambert is in her prime, the greatest actress in England. Off stage, however, she is bored with her handsome husband, coquettish and undisciplined. She is at first flattered and amused by the attentions of a shy and eager young fan, but before long Julia is amazed to find herself falling wildly, dangerously, in love.

Price: 10,9 GEL

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The Painted Veil

Author: W. Somerset Maugham

ISBN: 9780099507390

When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic. Stripped of the British society of her youth and the small but effective society she fought so hard to attain in Hong Kong, she is compelled by her awakening conscience to reassess her life and learn how to love.

The Painted Veil is a beautifully written affirmation of the human capacity to grow, to change, and to forgive.

Price: 10,9 GEL

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Interesting Words And Expressions – When in Rome, do as the Romans do

“When in Rome, do as the Romans do.”

What does it mean?

Act the way that the people around you are acting. This phrase might come in handy when you’re traveling abroad notice that people do things differently than you’re used to.

Where does it come from?

Henry Porter, wrote a version very similar to the present day version of the proverb in his play The Pleasant History of the Two Angry Women of Abington, in 1599:

Nay, I hope, as I have temperance to forbear drink, so have I patience to endure drink: Ile do as company dooth; for when a man doth to Rome come, he must do as there is done.”

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A Photographer Made These Rescue Dogs Look Like Famous Writers

Photographer Dan Bannino recently adopted a dog from a rescue shelter and it changed his life forever.

To celebrate, he decided he wanted to give his new pet, Rothko, and millions of other rescue dogs a voice by creating a new photo series entitled Poetic Dogs.

Bannino wrote on the project’s IndieGoGo page: “#POETICDOGS is a photo-project where dogs are besides famous writers: Speaking through their expressions, sounds and movements, they’re telling you everything saying nothing, just like an author would do with words in a fine poem.”

All the dogs featured in the series are from the same kennel near Turin, in Italy, where Bannino’s dog, Rothko, was adopted from.

 

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

Charles Pierre Baudelaire

Charles Pierre Baudelaire

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

James Joyce

James Joyce

Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy

Mark Twain

Mark Twain

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

You can see more of the pictures and learn about the dogs’ stories on Bannino’s Facebook and Instagram pages.

 

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Inspirational Quotes

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Which Book Would You Read?

This week we celebrate J.D. Salinger and Edith Wharton by asking which book would you read?

Franny and Zooey

Author: J.D. Salinger

ISBN: 9780241950449

Franny Glass is a pretty, effervescent college student on a date with her intellectually confident boyfriend, Lane. They appear to be the perfect couple, but as they struggle to communicate with each other about the things they really care about, slowly their true feelings come to the surface.

Price: 16,9 GEL

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The Catcher in the Rye

Author: J.D. Salinger

ISBN: 9780241950432

Holden Caulfield is a dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Navigating his way through challenges of growing up, Holden dissects the ‘phony’ aspects of society, and the ‘phonies’ themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents, his roommate who scores with girls using sickly-sweet affection.

Price: 24,5 GEL

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The Age of Innocence by Edith WhartonThe Age of Innocence

Author: Edith Wharton

ISBN: 9780194793346

Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people “dreaded scandal more than disease.”

This is Newland Archer’s world as he prepares to marry the beautiful but conventional May Welland. But when the mysterious Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after a disastrous marriage, Archer falls deeply in love with her. Torn between duty and passion, Archer struggles to make a decision that will either courageously define his life—or mercilessly destroy it.

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Inspirational Quotes

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20 Fun and Interesting Facts You May Not Have Known About LEGO

LEGO has been around almost 100 years. It began as small wooden playthings in the early 20th century and grew into a large market of plastic building bricks that controlled the world markets for decades.

It is one of the oldest plastic toys in the world. Its manufacturing was started in Denmark, but was eventually replaced by factories throughout the world. Today it is one of the most successful toys and has remained an iconic brand with a loyal and continuing following.

The traditional date for the first Lego blocks was 1947, and the toys have continued to be produced with little interruption since around that time. Continue reading for more fun and interesting facts.

lego facts

 

 

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Interesting Words And Expressions – Cattywampus

What does cattywampus mean?

It is an adjective and an adverb and means askew or awry; positioned diagonally or cater-cornered.

How do you pronounce it?

kat′ə wäm′pəs

or

[kat-ee-wom-puh s]

Where does it come from?

Long ago English gamblers called the four-dotted side of a die cater (from the French quatre, “four”). The placement of those four dots suggested two diagonal lines, which is likely how cater came to mean (dialectally, anyway) “to place, move, or cut across diagonally.”

Catercorner (later kitty-corner) and caterwampus –and eventually cattywampus –followed.

How do you use it?

Measure carefully before cutting, or the entire building will be cattywampus.

City hall is cattywampus to the post office.

 

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Book of the Week: The Call of the Wild by Jack London

When men find gold in the frozen north of Canada, they need dogs – big, strong dogs to pull the sledges on the long journeys to and from the gold mines.

Buck is stolen from his home in the south and sold as a sledge-dog. He has to learn a new way of life – how to work in harness, how to stay alive in the ice and the snow… and how to fight. Because when a dog falls down in a fight, he never gets up again.

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10 Little Known Facts About Virginia Woolf

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Virginia Woolf — most know the name, but few know the obscure biographical facts behind the name. Below are 10 little known facts about the troubled writer.

 

    •  Woolf once said that her death would be the “one experience I shall never describe.”

 

    • When Woolf taught at Morley College, she made her students write essays about themselves.
Virginia Woolf in her garden at Monk House
    • For a summer, she went mad believing that the birds were chirping in Greek and King Edward VII was saying curses from behind a nearby bush.

 

    • Woolf was a difficult shopper, often arguing with shopkeepers over what products they had for sale and what products she imagined they should have for sale.
Leonard and Virginia Woolf
    • After getting married, Woolf thought she should learn some domestic skills, so she enrolled in a school of cookery. Shortly after, she accidentally baked her wedding ring in a pudding.

 

    • Before Woolf was even 7 years old, her mother, Julia, was teaching her Latin, French, and History.
(L-R) Virginia Woolf, Duncan Grant, Adrian Stephen, Anthony Buxton, Guy Ridley, Horace Cole
    • Woolf and five of her male friends once received a 40-minute tour of the British battleship H.M.S. Dreadnought with the ship’s commander after painting their faces black, dressing in robes, and presenting themselves as the Prince of Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) and his entourage.

 

    • Woolf first tried to kill herself at the age of 22 by jumping out of a window. The window she jumped from, however, was not high enough to cause serious harm.
T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf in 1924
    • When Woolf asked T.S. Eliot at a particular dinner party to define his belief in God, Eliot did not answer.

 

    • When Virginia and Leonard Woolf, who together ran the Hogarth Press, received the manuscript of the first chapters of James Joyce’s Ulysses, they turned it down for publication because it was impossible to print the entire book on their handpress.

 

Interested in learning more about Virginia Woolf through her writing?

 

Orlando: A Biography

Author: Virginia Woolf

ISBN: 9780141184272

Price: 24,5 GEL

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Between the Acts

Author: Virginia Woolf

ISBN: 9780141184524

Price: 24,5 GEL

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The Common Reader

Author: Virginia Woolf

ISBN: 9780141389899

Price: 14,9 GEL

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A Room of One’s Own

Author: Virginia Woolf

ISBN: 9780141018980

Price: 14,9 GEL

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