Which British author wrote the novel Of Human Bondage
"been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Among popular novelists Daphne Du Maurier wrote ""Rebecca"", a mystery novel, in 1938 and W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) ""Of Human Bondage"" (1915), a strongly autobiographical novel, is generally agreed to be his masterpiece. In genre fiction Agatha Christie was an important writer of crime novels, short stories and plays, best remembered for her 80 detective novels and her successful West End theatre plays. Christie's novels include ""Murder on the Orient Express"" (1934), ""Death on the Nile"" (1937), and ""And Then There Were None"" (1939). Another popular writer during the Golden Age of detective fiction"
"Americans John Dos Passos, E. E. Cummings, and Ernest Hemingway. During this time he met Frederick Gerald Haxton, a young San Franciscan, who became his companion and lover until Haxton's death in 1944. Throughout this period, Maugham continued to write. He proofread ""Of Human Bondage"" at a location near Dunkirk during a lull in his ambulance duties. ""Of Human Bondage"" (1915) initially was criticized in both England and the United States; the ""New York World"" described the romantic obsession of the protagonist Philip Carey as ""the sentimental servitude of a poor fool"". The influential American novelist and critic Theodore Dreiser"
"Inhuman Bondage Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World is a book by American cultural and intellectual historian David Brion Davis, published by Oxford University Press in 2006. It recounts the history of slavery in a global context. It was praised widely as a full and comprehensive rendering of the subject and won the 2007 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award. Davis, a leading authority on slavery in the western world, has said the impetus for the book began as a series of lectures for a course he taught on slavery at Yale in 1994. Davis' own"
"rescued the novel, referring to it as a work of genius and comparing it to a Beethoven symphony. His review gave the book a lift, and it has never been out of print since. Maugham indicates in his foreword that he derived the title from a passage in Baruch Spinoza's ""Ethics"": ""Of Human Bondage"" is considered to have many autobiographical elements. Maugham gave Philip Carey a club foot (rather than his stammer); the vicar of Blackstable appears derived from the vicar of Whitstable; and Carey is a medic. Maugham insisted the book was more invention than fact. The close relationship"
"the role, and fails to give his character much life, while Novak, although making a valiant attempt, never conveys enough passion to make her role believable. Further denying any dramatic potential is Forbes' uninspired adaptation of Maugham's novel. Rather than probe the psychological make-up of the characters, the script consistently focuses on superficial motivations with all the emotional intensity of a high-school drama-society production."" The film was condemned by the National Legion of Decency for its sexual content and masochism. Notes Of Human Bondage (1964 film) Of Human Bondage is a 1964 British drama film directed by Ken Hughes. The"
"- and Of Human Bondage - were both at RKO and both had censorship trouble. In the novel by Lewis, Ann Vickers is a birth control advocate and reformer who has an extramarital affair. The screenplay was finally approved by the Production Code when the studio agreed to make Vickers an unmarried woman at the time of her affair, thus eliminating the issue of adultery. The screenplay for Maugham's ""Of Human Bondage"" was unacceptable to the Hays Code because Mildred Rogers (played by Davis), whom the club-footed medical student, Philip Carey (played by Howard), falls in love with, is not"
"other works are focused on this topic: ""The Moon and Sixpence"" (the main character has some resemblance with Paul Gauguin). Maugham wrote an article for ""Life Magazine"" titled “Painting I Have Liked”. ""Of Human Bondage"" is, probably, the most vivid instance of Maugham's inclination towards arts. According to Stanley Archer, more than 30 artists are named in the book, 10 famous paintings are mentioned by name and many others are referred to. Over half of the 33 artists named in the novel were painters whose careers developed primarily in the 19th century. Of these, 13 are French, five English, and"
"continued to the point where his collection was second only to that of the Garrick Club. In 1948 he announced that he would bequeath this collection to the Trustees of the National Theatre. From 1951, some 14 years before his death, his paintings began their exhibition life. In 1994 they were placed on loan to the Theatre Museum in Covent Garden. Maugham's masterpiece is generally agreed to be ""Of Human Bondage"", a semi-autobiographical novel that deals with the life of the main character Philip Carey, who, like Maugham, was orphaned, and brought up by his pious uncle. Philip's clubfoot causes"
"The Courtship of Morrice Buckler The Courtship of Morrice Buckler is a novel by the English writer AEW Mason first published in 1896; the full title is 'The courtship of Morrice Buckler, a romance; being a record of the growth of an English gentleman during the years 1685-1687, under strange and difficult circumstances, written some while afterwards in his own hand.' Mason is best remembered today for the film versions of his novels Fire Over England and The Four Feathers; 'Morrice Buckler' was his second novel and its success allowed him to became a full-time writer. This is a standard"
"close relationship with the young Somerset Maugham. His relationship with Maugham was significant both as Maugham's first sexual experience and for forming his literary tastes: The character Greene in Maugham's ""Of Human Bondage"", an ""esthete who is just back from Germany and admires Pater"" and influences Stephen, the young protagonist, is ""obviously based on Ellingham Brooks"". Five years later, Maugham and Brooks would cross paths again in Capri: Maugham disapproved of Brooks' indolent life in Capri, and based the protagonist of an unflattering short story, The Lotus-Eater, on him. In ""The Summing Up"", Maugham called Brooks ""Brown"" and wrote, ""For"
"Brenda Jagger Brenda Jagger (born 7 September 1936 in Yorkshire, England – d. 1986) was a British writer of 9 historical romance novels. In 1986, her last novel ""A Song Twice Over"" won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Brenda Jagger was born on 7 September 1936 in Yorkshire, England, UK. She married, and had three daughters. Before writing, she worked in Paris, France, and as a probation officer in the north of England. She published her first novel ""Antonia"" in 1978, set in Ancient Rome, like her novel ""Daughter of Aphrodite"". Most of"
"Edward Charles Edward Charles Edmond Hemsted (born Anacapri, Isola de Capri, 1898), better known by the pen name Edward Charles, was an English author, educator, social advocate and sexologist. His most famous writings are ""The Sexual Impulse"", ""Mens Gods"", ""Those Thoughtful People"", ""Sand & the Blue Moss"", ""Apple Pie Bed"", ""Indian Patchwork"" (with ""Mary Charles"", a pseudonym for his wife, Dorothy Mary Chance), ""Portrait of the Artist's Children"" and ""Idle Hands"". He was educated at Lancing College, St John's College, University of Oxford (where he took a double first) and Louvain University. During the early 1920s, he was a Professor"
"Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (March 29, 1831 – March 10, 1919) was a British novelist and teacher. Her career is an illustration of the capacity of woman under stress of sorrow to conquer the world and be successful. Many of the plots of her stories are laid in Scotland and England. The scenes are from her girlhood recollection of surroundings. Her works include, ""Jan Vedder's Wife"", ""The Border Shepherdess"", ""Feet of Clay"", ""Friend Olivia"", ""The Bow of Orange Ribbon"", ""Remember the Alamo"", ""She Loved a Sailor"", ""A Daughter of Fife"", ""The Squire of Sanddal Side"", ""Paul"
"Human Traces Human Traces is a 2005 novel by Sebastian Faulks, best known as the British author of ""Birdsong"" and ""Charlotte Gray"". The novel took Faulks five years to write. It tells of two friends who set up a pioneering asylum in 19th-century Austria, in tandem with the evolution of psychiatry and the start of the First World War. Tracing the intertwined lives of Doctors Thomas Midwinter, who is English, and Jacques Rebière, from Brittany, France, ""Human Traces"" explores the development of psychiatry and psychoanalysis in the late 19th century, by way of excursions into first alienism then metaphysics, human"
"William Hope Hodgson William Hope Hodgson (15 November 1877 – 19 April 1918) was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consisting of essays, short fiction, and novels, spanning several overlapping genres including horror, fantastic fiction, and science fiction. Hodgson used his experiences at sea to lend authentic detail to his short horror stories, many of which are set on the ocean, including his series of linked tales forming the ""Sargasso Sea Stories"". His novels, such as ""The House on the Borderland"" (1908) and ""The Night Land"" (1912), feature more cosmic themes, but several of his novels"
"bonding by increasing tactile pleasure. Like many other writers in the late 1960s and 1970s, Morris warned against the ""population explosion"" and overcrowding that might cause terminal damage to heretofore relatively stable social structures that humans had evolved in the long course of their development. A 1973 film directed by Donald Driver, very loosely based on the book, was made starring Johnny Crawford and Victoria Principal. In 2006, an independent film was made, based loosely on the book, written and directed by Daniel Mellitz, starring Josh Wise, Chelse Swain, Sean Shanks, Amanda MacDonald, Tony LaThanh, Corbin Bernsen. Beyond their scripts"
"bondage and slavery in general in his famous ""Narrative"" by the speech by the sentimentalist playwright Sheridan in The Columbian Orator detailing a fictional dialogue between a master and slave. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1774 ""The Sorrows of Young Werther"" was highly sentimental and immediately extremely popular throughout Europe, and even inspired young people who could relate to Werther's sorrows to commit suicide. It is also an excellent example of an epistolary novel, an especially typical form for eighteenth-century novels of sensibility, beginning with the influential novels of Samuel Richardson, ""Pamela"" (1740), ""Clarissa"" (1748), and ""The History of Sir Charles"
"Ulric Nisbet Hugh Ulric Swinscow Nisbet (May 19, 1897 - 1987) was a British writer and the author of ""Thoughts on the purpose of art"" (1934), ""Spread no wings"" (1937) and """" (1964). Under the pseudonym Hugh Callaway he published ""The onlie begetter(1936)"", ""Bridge to world man"" (1960), """" (1967) and ""The new consciousness (alternative to chaos)"" (1971). He also published under the name Pierre Saint Vaast. In ""The onlie begetter"" he proposed William Herbert as the dedicatee of Shakespeare's ""Sonnets"". He married Christine Bacheler Nisbet, a well-known American allegorical artist, who gained her BFA at Yale. In 1929 she"
"New York by Hunt and Eaton in 1890. Octavia Albert died on August 19, 1889, before ""The House of Bondage"" became widely known. Octavia V. Rogers Albert Octavia Victoria Rogers Albert (December 24, 1853 – August 19, 1889) was an African-American author and biographer. She documented slavery in the United States through a collection of interviews with ex-slaves in her book ""The House of Bondage,"" or ""Charlotte Brooks and Other Slaves"", which was posthumously published in 1890. She was born Octavia Victoria Rogers in Oglethorpe, Georgia, where she lived in slavery until the emancipation. She attended Atlanta University where she"
"promotion of contraception. Edward Charles Edward Charles Edmond Hemsted (born Anacapri, Isola de Capri, 1898), better known by the pen name Edward Charles, was an English author, educator, social advocate and sexologist. His most famous writings are ""The Sexual Impulse"", ""Mens Gods"", ""Those Thoughtful People"", ""Sand & the Blue Moss"", ""Apple Pie Bed"", ""Indian Patchwork"" (with ""Mary Charles"", a pseudonym for his wife, Dorothy Mary Chance), ""Portrait of the Artist's Children"" and ""Idle Hands"". He was educated at Lancing College, St John's College, University of Oxford (where he took a double first) and Louvain University. During the early 1920s, he"
"No Orchids for Miss Blandish (novel) No Orchids For Miss Blandish is a 1939 crime novel by the British writer James Hadley Chase. The novel was influenced by the American crime writer James M. Cain and the stories in the pulp magazine ""Black Mask"". Chase reportedly wrote the book as a bet to out-do ""The Postman Always Rings Twice"". ""No Orchids for Miss Blandish"" provoked considerable controversy because of its explicit depiction of sexuality and violence. The novel was a great critical success and was included in the ""Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century"". In 1942, the novel was"
"Hilary Mantel Dame Hilary Mary Mantel, ( ; née Thompson; born 6 July 1952) is an English writer whose work includes personal memoirs, short stories, and historical fiction. She has twice been awarded the Booker Prize, the first for the 2009 novel ""Wolf Hall"", a fictional account of Thomas Cromwell's rise to power in the court of Henry VIII, and the second for the 2012 novel ""Bring Up the Bodies"", the second instalment of the Cromwell trilogy. Mantel was the first woman to receive the award twice, following in the footsteps of J. M. Coetzee, Peter Carey and J. G."
"Hood (novel) Hood is the second novel written by Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue, published in 1995. The book was the recipient of the 1997 Stonewall Book Award and is heavily influenced by James Joyce's ""Ulysses"". First published in the U.S. in 1995 and most recently published by HarperCollins in 2011. This novel takes place in the seven days after Pen O'Grady's lover, Cara Wall, has been killed in a car accident. The two had been together for thirteen years, after meeting as schoolgirls in a Catholic school in Dublin. The story combines flashbacks giving the history of Pen and Cara's"
"John Boland (author) Bertram John Boland (12 February 1913 – 9 November 1976) was a British novelist and science fiction author. Boland was born in Birmingham, but later lived in East Sussex, on the edge of Ashdown Forest with his wife, Philippa. His most well known book was ""The League of Gentlemen"" (1958) which was released as a film. However, characters' names and the ending were changed. He wrote two sequels: They continued with the characterisations developed in the film. His first novel ""White August"" (1955) was a science fiction weather control disaster story. His second, ""No Refuge"" (1956) begins"
"the 1880s he turned to writing novels with heterosexual romantic themes. William Money Hardinge William Money Hardinge (1854-1916) was an English poet and author. The son of Doctor Henry Hardinge of London, William received his education at Westminster and Oxford. During his time at Balliol College, Oxford, he gained a reputation as a romantic homosexual and aesthete, acquiring the nickname of the 'Balliol Bugger'. He had a controversial relationship with the essayist Walter Pater, for which he was sent down for nine months. In 1876, at the age of 21, he won the Newdigate Prize for his work ""Troy"" and"
"Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, musician and travel writer. His most famous works are ""Treasure Island"", ""Kidnapped"", ""Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"", and ""A Child's Garden of Verses"". He was a literary celebrity during his lifetime, and now ranks as the 26th most translated author in the world. His works have been admired by many other writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Proust, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Cesare Pavese, Emilio Salgari, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Vladimir Nabokov, J."
"a sensitive relationship. John Fowles John Robert Fowles (; 31 March 1926 – 5 November 2005) was an English novelist of international stature, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism. His work reflects the influence of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, among others. After leaving Oxford University, Fowles taught English at a school on the Greek island of Spetses, a sojourn that inspired ""The Magus"", an instant best-seller that was directly in tune with 1960s ""hippy"" anarchism and experimental philosophy. This was followed by ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"" (1969), a Victorian-era romance with a postmodern twist that was set in Lyme"
"things plastered all over the walls), the act of finishing it felt like a bereavement. Human Traces Human Traces is a 2005 novel by Sebastian Faulks, best known as the British author of ""Birdsong"" and ""Charlotte Gray"". The novel took Faulks five years to write. It tells of two friends who set up a pioneering asylum in 19th-century Austria, in tandem with the evolution of psychiatry and the start of the First World War. Tracing the intertwined lives of Doctors Thomas Midwinter, who is English, and Jacques Rebière, from Brittany, France, ""Human Traces"" explores the development of psychiatry and psychoanalysis"
"married Ulric Nisbet and they settled in Salcombe, Devon. Ulric Nisbet Hugh Ulric Swinscow Nisbet (May 19, 1897 - 1987) was a British writer and the author of ""Thoughts on the purpose of art"" (1934), ""Spread no wings"" (1937) and """" (1964). Under the pseudonym Hugh Callaway he published ""The onlie begetter(1936)"", ""Bridge to world man"" (1960), """" (1967) and ""The new consciousness (alternative to chaos)"" (1971). He also published under the name Pierre Saint Vaast. In ""The onlie begetter"" he proposed William Herbert as the dedicatee of Shakespeare's ""Sonnets"". He married Christine Bacheler Nisbet, a well-known American allegorical artist,"
"Howard Sturgis Howard Overing Sturgis (January 30, 1855 – February 7, 1920) was an English-language novelist who wrote about same-sex love. Of American parentage, he lived and worked in Britain. Howard Overing Sturgis was born in Britain on 30 January 1855, in London. He was born into an affluent New England American family: his father, Russell Sturgis (1805–1887), was a China trader and lawyer who later became head of Barings Bank. His mother was Russell's third wife, Julia Overing ""née"" Boit. Sturgis had a brother, Julian, who also became a novelist, and a half-brother, John Hubbard Sturgis, who was a"
"Joanna Trollope Joanna Trollope (; born 9 December 1943) is an English writer. She also wrote under the pseudonym of Caroline Harvey. Her novel ""Parson Harding's Daughter"" won in 1980 the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Trollope was born on 9 December 1943 in her grandfather's rectory in Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, England, daughter of Rosemary Hodson and Arthur George Cecil Trollope. She is the eldest of three. Trollope is of the same family as the Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope although not a direct descendant, and is a cousin of the writer and broadcaster James Trollope:"
"at 8 Boundary Street, Hulme, near Manchester, leaving his widow and three children with little money to support them. The Savage Club, with the help of five leading London theatres, arranged a benefit performance to establish a fund to support them, with Charles Dickens as a trustee. Robert Barnabas Brough Robert Barnabas Brough (10 April 1828 – 26 June 1860) was an English writer. He wrote poetry, novels and plays and was a contributor to many periodicals. Brough was born on 10 April 1828 in London, the son of Barnabas Brough (c. 1795-1854), a brewer and wine merchant and Frances"
"of a long love affair,"" and a "" spare, powerful narrative."" This novel is about a semi-closeted lesbian in Ireland. Scholarly writing about Hood has noted themes of Catholicism, closets, and the home. Hood (novel) Hood is the second novel written by Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue, published in 1995. The book was the recipient of the 1997 Stonewall Book Award and is heavily influenced by James Joyce's ""Ulysses"". First published in the U.S. in 1995 and most recently published by HarperCollins in 2011. This novel takes place in the seven days after Pen O'Grady's lover, Cara Wall, has been killed"