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Of Human Bondage

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noun

  1. a novel (1915) by W. Somerset Maugham.


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She won in 1936 for Dangerous and would have done so for her storming turn in Of Human Bondage a year earlier had she not broken her contract with Warner Bros to make it.

From The Guardian • Jan. 25, 2018

Parker got what might have been a big break when she was cast as the Machiavellian Mildred in a 1946 remake of W. Somerset Maugham’s Of Human Bondage.

From Time • Dec. 11, 2013

The most surprising thing about Of Human Bondage is not that it was made so well but that it was made at all.

From Time Magazine Archive

His most famed novel, Of Human Bondage, a best seller ten years ago, has had a steady sale ever since.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet in his plays, one finds a greater attention to conventional technique and “form” than one finds in books like Of Human Bondage and The Moon and Sixpence.

From When Winter Comes to Main Street by Overton, Grant Martin

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