Стилистический анализ рассказа У.С. Моэма "The Escape"

William Somerset Maugham is one of the best known English writers of the 20th century. The trend he belongs to is realism with slight ifluence of expressionism. A novelist, a dramatist, and a short-story writer, he gained an outstanding reputation with his prominent books “Of Human Bondage”, “The Moon and Sixpence”, and “The Razor's Edge”. The observer of the first decades of the 20th century, Maugham is deeply critical of the morals and the narrow-mindedness of his contemporaries. In general, Maugham's novels and short stories could be characterized by great narrative facility, an ironic point of view, cosmopolitan settings, and an astonishing understanding of human nature.