Д 19 “The Magician” by W.S. Maugham [Электронный ресурс] : учеб. пособие по домашнему чтению / О. <...> Then I returned to London and, with a friend of my own age, took and furnished a small flat near Victoria Station. <...> My friend was at the Bar, and so I had the day (and the flat) to myself and my work. <...> I was looked upon as a promising young writer and, I think I may say it without vanity, was accepted as a member of the intelligentsia, an honourable condition which, some years later, when I became a popular writer of light comedies, I lost; and have never since regained. <...> It was all very nice, but I couldn't see that it was leading me anywhere. <...> I told the friend with whom I shared the flat that I wanted to be rid of it and go abroad. <...> A few months before this, I had been fortunate enough to make friends with a young painter who had a studio in the Rue Campagne Premiиre. <...> He had had an upbringing unusual for a painter, for he had been to Eton* and to Cambridge*. <...> I bought, secondhand, such furniture and household utensils as were essential, and the concierge told me of a woman who would come in for half a day and make my cafй au lait* in the morning and my luncheon at noon. <...> I have described the place elsewhere, and in some detail in the novel to which these pages are meant to serve as a preface, so that I need not here say more about it. <...> We were apt to look upon them as interlopers, and I don't think we made them particularly welcome. <...> One of these casual visitors was Aleister Crowley. <...> He had fine eyes and a way, whether natural or acquired I do not know, of so focusing them that, when he looked at you, he seemed to look behind you. <...> He was a liar and unbecomingly boastful, but the odd thing was that he had actually done some of the things he boasted of. <...> As you flip through the pages you may well read a stanza which, if you came across it in a volume of Swinburne's <...>
«The_Magician»_by_W._S._Maugham_(1).pdf
О.Е. Данчевская
«The Magician»
by
W. S. Maugham
Учебное пособие по домашнему
чтению
Москва
Издательство “ФЛИНТА”
2012
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УДК 811.161.1(075.8)
ББК 81.2Англ-923
Д 19
Данчевская О.Е.
Д 19 “The Magician” by W.S. Maugham [Электронный ресурс] : учеб. пособие по
домашнему чтению / О.Е. Данчевская. –М. : ФЛИНТА, 2012. – 296 с.
ISBN 978-5-9765-1079-1
Первое пособие по домашнему чтению на английском языке,
разработанное к оригинальной неадаптированной версии романа У.С. Моэма
«Маг» с подробными культурологическими комментариями к тексту,
которые сделают чтение этого увлекательного произведения ещё более
интересным. Комплекс упражнений, вопросов для обсуждения и
дополнительных заданий помогает формировать и развивать языковые
навыки (лексические и грамматические) и речевые умения в таких видах
речевой деятельности, как чтение, говорение и письмо.
Для студентов, аспирантов и преподавателей филологических
факультетов вузов, а так же всех, изучающих английский язык
самосоятельно.
УДК 811.161.1(075.8)
ББК 81.2Англ-923
ISBN 978-5-9765-1079-1
© Данчевская О.Е., 2012
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Contents
От составителя …………………………..………………………………….……… 5
W.S. Maugham ………………………………………………………………………. 6
A Fragment of Autobiography …………………………………………………….... 9
Commentary and Exercises ……………………………………………………..….14
Chapter I …………………………………………………………………………….. 18
Commentary and Exercises ……………………………………………………….. 25
Chapter II …………………………………………………………………………….. 29
Commentary and Exercises …………………………………………………….…. 38
Chapter III ………………………………………………………………………...…. 41
Commentary and Exercises ……………………………………………………….. 56
Chapter IV ……………………………………………………………………….…… 61
Commentary and Exercises …………………………………………………..……. 68
Chapter V …………………………………………………………………………….. 71
Commentary and Exercises ……………………………………………………..…. 86
Chapter VI ………………………………………………………………………….... 95
Commentary and Exercises ………………………………………………………. 101
Chapter VII ………………………………………………………………………….. 104
Commentary and Exercises ………………………………………………………. 117
Chapter VIII …………………………………………………………………………. 124
Commentary and Exercises ………………………………………………………. 141
Chapter IX …………………………………………………………………………... 148
Commentary and Exercises ………………………………………………………. 162
Chapter X …………………………………………………………………………… 165
Commentary and Exercises ………………………………………………………. 175
Chapter XI ………………………………………………………………….……….. 177
Commentary and Exercises ………………………………………………………. 190
Chapter XII ………………………………………………………………………….. 194
Exercises ……………………………………………………………………………. 207
Chapter XIII ……………………………………………………………………….... 209
Commentary and Exercises ………………………………………………….…… 223
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Chapter XIV ………………………………………………………………………… 227
Commentary and Exercises ………………………………………………………. 240
Chapter XV ………………………………………………………………………….. 244
Exercises ……………………………………………………………………………. 251
Chapter XVI ……………………………………………………..………………….. 253
Exercises ……………………………………………………………………………. 270
Topics for Final Discussion ……………………………………………………….. 272
Topics for Essays ………………………………………………………………….. 273
Vocabulary ………………………………………………………………………….. 274
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