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 <...>
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О.Е. Данчевская
ДОМАШНЕЕ ЧТЕНИЕ
по книге У.С. Моэма «Маг»
HOMEREADING
“The Magician” by W.S. Maugham
Учебное пособие
4-е издание, переработанное
Москва
Издательство «ФЛИНТА»
2025
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УДК 811.111-26(076.6)
ББК 81.432.1я73
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Данчевская О.Е.
Д19
Домашнее чтение по книге У.С. Моэма «Маг». Homereading.
“The Magician” by W.S. Maugham : учеб. пособие / О.Е.
Данчевская. — 4-е изд., перераб. — Москва : ФЛИНТА, 2025. —
310 с. — ISBN 978-5-9765-1079-1, — Текст : электронный.
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 также всех изучающих английский язык самостоятельно.
УДК
811.111-26(076.6)
ББК 81.432.1я73
ISBN 978-5-9765-1079-1
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© Данчевская О.Е., 2018
© Издательство «ФЛИНТА», 2018
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CONTENTS
От составителя ................................................................................................5
W.S. Maugham ................................................................................................7
A Fragment of Autobiography ..................................................................... 11
Commentary .............................................................................................16
Exercises ..................................................................................................19
Chapter I ........................................................................................................21
Commentary .............................................................................................28
Exercises ..................................................................................................29
Chapter II ......................................................................................................32
Commentary .............................................................................................40
Exercises ..................................................................................................41
Chapter III .....................................................................................................44
Commentary .............................................................................................59
Exercises ..................................................................................................62
Chapter IV .....................................................................................................65
Commentary .............................................................................................72
Exercises ..................................................................................................73
Chapter V .......................................................................................................75
Commentary .............................................................................................90
Exercises ..................................................................................................97
Chapter VI ...................................................................................................100
Commentary ...........................................................................................106
Exercises ................................................................................................107
Chapter VII ................................................................................................. 110
Commentary ...........................................................................................123
Exercises ................................................................................................127
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Chapter VIII ................................................................................................131
Commentary ...........................................................................................149
Exercises ................................................................................................153
Chapter IX ...................................................................................................157
Commentary ...........................................................................................171
Exercises ................................................................................................171
Chapter X .....................................................................................................174
Commentary ...........................................................................................184
Exercises ................................................................................................184
Chapter XI ...................................................................................................187
Commentary ...........................................................................................200
Exercises ................................................................................................201
Chapter XII .................................................................................................205
Exercises ................................................................................................218
Chapter XIII ................................................................................................221
Commentary ...........................................................................................235
Exercises ................................................................................................236
Chapter XIV ................................................................................................239
Commentary ...........................................................................................252
Exercises ................................................................................................254
Chapter XV ..................................................................................................257
Exercises ................................................................................................264
Chapter XVI ................................................................................................266
Exercises ................................................................................................283
Topics for Final Discussion ..........................................................................286
Topics for Essays ..........................................................................................287
Vocabulary ....................................................................................................288
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