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Of Human Bondage – Is It Worth While?
Review of Of Human BondageI 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 Critical Heritage.
I don't find W. L. Courtney in the anthology, but in Wikipedia there is a brief outline of who he w…
Short Stories. English and Irish Authors Read Their Own Work (The Spoken Word)
Short Stories: English & Irish Authors Read Their Own Work (The Spoken Word) This is a review of this three CD set The Spoken Word. Short Stories: English and Irish Authors Read Their Own Work, which contains tracks of Maugham reading his own short stories: "Salvatore" and "The Luncheon." You will also find details of the content in this collection of historic recordings.Maugham's Short Stories
This is the first volume of the audio recording that I reviewed some tim…