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Mladé roky. Maughamov otec Robert Ormond Maugham bol anglický právnik, ktorý sa staral o záležitosti britskej ambasády v Paríži.Pretože francúzsky zákon vyhlásil každé dieťa narodené na území Francúzska za francúzskeho občana, zariadil, aby sa W. Somerset narodil na britskej ambasáde v Paríži, ktorá bola technicky britskou pôdou.
May 8, 2014 · His father Robert Ormond Maugham, a solicitor who worked for the embassy, died of cancer three years later. 'Devastating impact' Maugham was then sent to live with his uncle, the Reverend Henry ...
Maugham's father, Robert Ormond Maugham, was a lawyer who handled the legal affairs of the British embassy in Paris.[2] Since French law declared that all children born on French soil could be...
Son père, Robert Ormond Maugham, âgé alors de cinquante ans, était un juriste anglais chargé des affaires juridiques de l'ambassade britannique à Paris. Son grand-père, également prénommé Robert, était également un juriste de renom et l'un des fondateurs de l’English Law Society. On s'attendait donc à ce que l’enfant marchât ...
Somerset Maugham. William Somerset Maugham was born in the British Embassy in Paris on 25th January, 1874. William's father, Robert Ormond Maugham, a wealthy solicitor, worked for the Embassy in France. Maugham's mother died of tuberculosis when he was seven and his father of cancer three years later. Maugham later wrote in Summing Up (1938 ...
Popular English writer, W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), was in kinship care as a child. William Somerset Maugham was born at the British embassy in Paris where his father, Robert Ormond Maugham, worked as a lawyer. William became an orphan when he was ten years old. First, his mother, Edith Mary, died of tuberculosis in 1882 and then his ...
Mar 1, 2014 · Here is the top 10: Somerset Maugham. Library of Congress. Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels” (“No one has ever written this difficult language of ours more compactly, more lucidly and with greater elegance than Swift.”) Fielding’s “Tom Jones” (“Perhaps the healthiest novel in English literature.”) “David Copperfield ...
