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THE DUCHESS AND THE JEWELLER by Virginia Wolf, easy summary, question / answer with quotations for advanced students: Why does Oliver Bacon pay twenty thousand pounds to the Duchess for false pearls?

            THE DUCHESS AND THE JEWELLER     Virginia Woolf Q.1) Why does Oliver Bacon pay twenty thousand pounds to the Duchess for false pearls? Oliver Bacon is a wealthy and successful jeweler, yet he is plagued by memories of his past and an endless desire for more. The Duchess induced Oliver Bacon, the jeweler, into buying fake pearls very cleverly. When the Duchess handed over the fake pearls to Oliver, he thought he should call his assistants: Spencer or Hammond, to inspect the pearls and tell him whether they are real or not. When he nearly rang the bell, the Duchess interrupted him. She invited him to the party where all the aristocracy will be present.         Oliver took his hand off the bell right away. He imagined himself, the Prime Minister and Diana all together in one place. The eyes of the Duchess were on him. He drew his cheque book towards him; he took out his pen and wrote ‘Twenty’ and stopped. He looked at the picture of the old woman and felt as she is saying:
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A DREAM OF WINTER by Rosamond Lehmann easy summary with answer to many questions

     This summary includes answer to many questions that is why I did not feel the necessity to write all the questions separately and repeat the same answer to each question.             A DREAM OF WINTER by Rosamond Lehmann This story happens in the winter when a sick woman who is mother of two children – John and Jane – wants the bee man to take the swarm that had buried in her country house for years. From the beginning of story, we can find that she is a lonely woman from her thought that implicitly told. “She lay staring out upon a mineral landscape: iron, ice, and stone. The silence was so absolute that it reversed itself and became in her ears continuous reverberation.” Like the iron, ice, and stone that made by physical stuff; the silence of loneliness absolutely a nonphysical nature of human. It’s called the power beyond human ability, the God’s will. Human do not invent loneliness and human cannot alter them. The moral values here are as human is that there is a timeless
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ON Guard Evelyn Waugh Summary with answer to many questions

                      This summary includes answer to many questions that is why I did not feel the necessity to write all the questions separately and repeat the same answer to each question.                  ON GUARD                              Evelyn Waugh      The story presents a contrast between the fickleness of a woman’s heart and a dog’s sense of commitment. Hector is engaged to a young girl named Millicent. Their marriage has beendelayed because of Hector’s unemployment. Having failed in his efforts to find employment inEngland, he decided to travel to Kenya.He is doubtful if Millicent would wait for him for such a long time. His friend Beckthorpe suggested Hector should purchase a dog for Milly and name him Hector, that will remind her of him. Finally, he decides infavour of a dog who would guard Millicent in his absence. Millicent’s most remarkable feature is an unusual nose, a mere dab of putty without apparent bone structure. It was in fact the cynosure of all eyes. He
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LOCAL BOY MAKES GOOD John Moore Summary with answer of many questions.

    This summary includes answer to many questions that is why I did not feel the necessity to write all the questions separately and repeat the same answer to each question.             LOCAL BOY MAKES GOOD               John Moore      Cec had been clever as a kid. The masters at the Approved School had said he was a clever lad who ought to make good. When Amos told him that it took his grandfather hundred and fifty-three days to travel in Talavera, the ship model Amos was currently working on. Cec replied: “You could fly it now in about three”         It was clear that Cec could see no virtue in sailing round the world in a hundred and fifty-three days; but to fly round it in three days was wonderful because you ‘saved time’. Cec was always full of ideas for ‘saving time’. Amos, in his simplicity, dared to wonder what was the point of saving time when you were then faced with an almost insoluble problem of how to use it up.   Amos spent four years making “Cutty Sark” and eleve
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THE BASEMENT ROOMby Graham Greene The Kite by Somerset Maugham Summary and question / answers with quotations for advanced students: Compare and contrast the characters of Mr. and Mrs. Baines in "The Basement Room." Discuss the psychological background of the story “The Basement Room”.

            THE BASEMENT ROOM      by Graham Greene      Q.1) Compare and contrast the characters of Mr. and Mrs. Baines in "The Basement Room."      Mrs. Baines seems like the disciplinarian of the two. She is always doing some work because she prefers to be busy. She was a shrewd woman of possessing deep observation. She could make out the whole back-ground of the scenario behind a cube of sugared cake lying on Philip’s coat.   She was a master of bluffing. She was the kind of woman who thought that any injustice could be counterbalanced by something good to eat. Mr. Baines seems more easygoing and is, therefore, more of a friend to Philip than an authority figure. Philip appreciates this, even noting that Baines speaks to him as if they were "man to man". Philip enjoys Baines's tales of adventure and fully admits that he loves Baines. So, Philip's main loyalty lies with Baines, the more fun, understanding adult of the two servants. Both the charact
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THE MARIAby Elizabeth Bowen Summary and question / answers with quotations for advanced students: Why did Maria want to go away from Mrs. Dosely’s house? How did she succeed? DRAW A CHARACTER SKETCH OF MARIA.

                                               THE MARIA by Elizabeth Bowen Q1.) Why did Maria want to go away from Mrs. Dosely’s house? How did she succeed?         Maria is a teenaged orphan girl who is sent to live with strangers when her aunt and uncle go on vacation. The family she stays with is extremely religious, and strangely nice to her, despite her rudeness. But Maria hates rectories and religious people like Doselys and everything belonging to them. On her way home with her aunt Ena, Maria told her: “I can’t tell you what I think of this place you’re sending me to. I bounced on the bed in that attic they’re giving me and it’s like iron. I suppose you realize that rectories are always full of diseases?”         After few days in Mrs. Dosely’s house she started to weave an intrigue to revert to her aunt Ena. She chases Hammond devilishly all the time. She plans carefully how to create a real fuss with Hammond. She writes a letter to Aunt Ena and Uncle Philip saying tha
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THE WOMAN WHO HAD IMAGINATION by H. E. Bates. Easy summary with Quotation for advanced students

       This summary includes answer to many questions that is why I did not feel the necessity to write all the questions separately and repeat the same answer to each question.             THE WOMAN WHO HAD IMAGINATION  by    H. E. Bates.      The “ Woman Who Had Imagination ” is a fascinating collection of contrasts. The story has elements of realism, beauty, ugliness, tenderness and irony. The story centers around the experience of Henry, a disaffected and somewhat self-absorbed young man. He was a sensitive young man, and saw no change in his life for the next fifty years. He hated to work on his father’s place in a drapery shop. He also hated the lifeless dummies. He wished one of them should come true. After a long journey in the brake, they finally entered in the house of Antonio where he lived with his sister named Madalena. She was about twenty-eight years old. Her eyes were beautiful and black. She was married to an old man, who is shown as being a very jealous and abnormal o
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