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Sep 29, 2013 · Of Human Bondage is a long book of 555 pages, and it seemed endless while I read it and quite boring in some passages. There is really not much of a plot, but endless narration and exposition, accompanied by little dialog.
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Based on a novel by W. Somerset Maugham, this drama follows Philip Carey (Leslie Howard), an English medical student who abandons his artistic aspirations when he falls for Mildred Rogers (Bette...
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Aug 18, 2015 · I came across an interesting old review of Of Human Bondage (1915), published on 18 August 1915, exactly a hundred years ago and five days after the novel came out in Britain, in Daily Telegraph. It was written by W. L. Courtney and was not selected by Curtis and Whitehead in their anthology of contemporary criticism of Maugham's works, The ...
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Thirty years ago, I became an English teacher. I love to read and I love to share books and ideas. When someone next to me on the bus is reading, I want to see what they're reading, and I want to know what they think about it. If you invite me to your home, I’ll scope out your bookshelves. I want to share good books with people, and I want to share...
I want to share books (and sometimes movies, short stories, paintings, and possibly other media) that have impacted my life and made me think, laugh, and cry. I deliberately have no plan, order, or logical arrangement, so with no further ado, I’d like to introduce you to my favorite novel of all time: Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham.
This is usually the most lengthy and boring part of a traditional book report. I'm going to reduce the plot summary to one sentence: A man with a physical defect goes through life looking for a good job, love, and the meaning of life—pretty much in that order.
Of Human Bondage was a book in my house when I was growing up. It was old and had a plain black cover. It looked musty and dusty, so I never opened it up until I was in college, home for summer break, and bored. Once I started reading, I was hooked. I've probably read this book 30 times; I usually read it at least once a year. When the weather gets...
"You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action. In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like eve..."Nothing would have pleased him more than to sit on in the cosy, shabby restaurant, but he knew that Mildred wanted entertainment. She was restless and, wherever she was, wanted after a while to go..."I say, how about going to a music-hall?" he said. He thought rapidly that if she cared for him at all she would say she preferred to stay there. "I was just thinking we ought to be going if we are..."They ordered punch. They drank it. It was hot rum punch. The pen falters when it attempts to treat of the excellence thereof; the sober vocabulary, the sparse epithet of this narrative, are inadeq..."To me at least it is a gorgeous weave, as interesting and valuable at the beginning as at the end. There is material in its three hundred thousand and more words for many novels and indeed several..."The best that can be said of this masterpiece is that it made a good movie and launched Bette Davis's Career." —Gore VidalYep. But if you love the book, the movie will leave you a bit unsatisfied—though Bette Davis IS a great Mildred. And yeah, Leslie Howard was probably the only choice for Philip.
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Of Human Bondage is a 1915 novel by W. Somerset Maugham. The novel is generally agreed to be Maugham's masterpiece and to be strongly autobiographical in nature, although he stated, "This is a novel, not an autobiography; though much in it is autobiographical, more is pure invention."
May 24, 2019 · In Of Human Bondage, Maugham’s longest novel and his masterpiece, he turned to the well-known form of the Bildungsroman, the novel of a young person growing to maturity. Of Human Bondage is highly autobiographical, although it departs significantly from autobiographical accuracy in places.
Jul 6, 2017 · NYT Critic’s Pick. By Ken Jaworowski. July 6, 2017. You may not look like anyone onstage in “Of Human Bondage,” particularly if you don’t dress in late-19th-century garb. But you have felt like...
