The man who could work miracles. Wells.
George Wells is a famous English writer. His work “war of the worlds” is the best known of his books. He was well versed in history and philosophy. Wrote about restructuring in society, making social and political predictions.Wales was a fantasy writer and in his works he first described such phenomena as parallel worlds, invisibility.But the author rather wants to draw the reader’s attention to important social and social issues.
Fotheringay is an ordinary man. One evening do you doing a discussion at an inn about the feasibility of miracles he finds that he can perform them himself. Later while exercising his new powers he accidentally it has a policemen to sent to San Francisco and feeling contrite decides to speak with the local minister Maydig who is amazed and wants Fotheringay to uses powers to improve the world. But a problem with the wording Fotheringay uses to order the earth to stop turning produced a chain of natural catastrophes which only Fotheringay survives. In his simplicity and shook his last miracle is to have his powers withdrawn from him and everything forgotten and the story closes with the same scene with which it opened. Wells constructs a fantasy in which miracles really happen. It is also a clever example of a ‘never-ending’ story in which the end leads back to the beginning and the story could start all over again.
Lord Emsworth and the girl friend.
Sir Pelham Wodehouse was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. Wodehouse believed that one of the factors that made his stories humorous was his view of life. Many critics scolded woodhouse for fabulous storie he has very verified and correct texts because he could write one book for several years. at first he did a bunch of drafts and then only wrote the first version of the story. He loved theater and wrote a lot for musicals and plays.
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funny but its humour disguises its deeper themes.
This is a very funny account of a mutually advantages meeting between an elderly upper class gentleman and sharp-witted young girl.
The gentleman Lord Emsworth is the weak unhappy man unable to oppose both his sister Constance who presses him into the formalities of the blendings Annual school treat and his head gardener Mc Allister who rules over Lords gardens.
Do you drink the fair Lawrence meets Gladys the sharp-witted girl who rescues him from her dog and innocently tells him how she while stealing flowers from his garden has faced up to McAllister. Later when escaping from their tea tent Lord meets Gladys again in a hut. She has been punished by Constance for taking food for her brother. Amazed at the sight of a girl who can do what he can’t Lord invites her for tea and let’s pick flowers from his Gardens.
When an infuriated McAllister approaches to defend his flowers Lord encouraged by Gladys’s hand taking his stands up to both the gardener and his sister.
The dolls house
Katherine Mansfield - New Zealand writer novelist. master of the short story, who evolved a distinctive prose style with many overtones of poetry. Her delicate stories, focused upon psychological conflicts. Perhaps her work was strongly influenced by the death of her brother during the war, but she was very talented because she started publishing at nine years old. She was one of the representatives of modernism in English literature.
The Burnell girls received a wonderful doll’s house as a present. They are fascinated and can’t wait to show it off at school. Kezia the youngest particularly likes the lamp. The dolls house and it’s lamp comes the topic of conversation at school. All the girls are invited to see it except Kelveys daughters of a washer woman and an absent father who is said to be in prison. They Kelveys are not only isolated but also bullied and silently endure their circumstances. Despite her parents explicit banning of the Kelveys Kezia invites them to see the dolls house. They are soon told to leave by the aunt but they have finally seen the house and the lamp.
Katherine Mansfield explores the relationships between adults and children, and between children themselves when adult ideas about social class are imposed on them. Mansfield’s writing is typically poetic and delicate with strong visual images, while at the same time showing a profound understanding of human relationships and emotions. At the end of ‘The Doll’s House’, we are left with a sense of disappointment at the way in which people behave towards each other.