tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1103812558425454904.post5447585193094727794..comments2023-06-18T05:44:02.991-04:00Comments on My Maugham Collection: Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham - First Edition First IssueUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1103812558425454904.post-19188220190727408352017-10-13T09:23:48.925-04:002017-10-13T09:23:48.925-04:00Can you describe the copy? Like the publisher, yea...Can you describe the copy? Like the publisher, year, or any other information. I did a project some time ago registering editions of Of Human Bondage, and there are some photos in the video: https://mymaughamcollection.blogspot.com/p/to-celebrate-centenary-of-of-human.htmlMy Maugham Collectionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16001690360958605423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1103812558425454904.post-30099450989410339512017-10-13T00:31:07.271-04:002017-10-13T00:31:07.271-04:00I have a copy that has "educational edition&q...I have a copy that has "educational edition" on the title page. I cannot find any information about this specific printing. It is hard bound, with the author's name,in red, in script, on the front coverAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07886018908268585255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1103812558425454904.post-8640502913438419002017-02-03T06:36:40.487-05:002017-02-03T06:36:40.487-05:00Could you give more details? Which pages? Are you ...Could you give more details? Which pages? Are you talking about this first edition first issue? Thanks!My Maugham Collectionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16001690360958605423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1103812558425454904.post-91842614963194210532017-02-02T18:14:18.684-05:002017-02-02T18:14:18.684-05:00I have a misprint edition, a section of pages is ...I have a misprint edition, a section of pages is left out, and another section is printed twice. Does anyone know anything about this?<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06806651242063971104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1103812558425454904.post-5682971912900512932015-06-27T21:51:41.870-04:002015-06-27T21:51:41.870-04:00...to make headlines, I mean....to make headlines, I mean.My Maugham Collectionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16001690360958605423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1103812558425454904.post-4533820939931400602015-06-27T21:48:01.516-04:002015-06-27T21:48:01.516-04:00Got you! Maugham wrote that in 1941. I think he wa...Got you! Maugham wrote that in 1941. I think he was making fun of people's self image from an outsider's point of view. For example, since you mention Canada, the Canucks believe they are incredibly polite. <br /><br />Yeah, I heard about those tickets. Brutal. When I was using all my wits to get money for my degree, I heard that someone opened a bottle of vintage wine the night before My Maugham Collectionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16001690360958605423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1103812558425454904.post-83522197681085403562015-06-27T18:13:23.246-04:002015-06-27T18:13:23.246-04:00Canada?
Well, the reason I said that in America it...Canada?<br />Well, the reason I said that in America it's easy to make that observation, it's because here, how much money one has really doesn't determine their maturity, refinement, gentleness, morality at all. We have a stereotype here called "White Trash With Money." This would describe Paris Hilton, as well as most oil-wealth southerners, rock stars, and New York and Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08967813811804895750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1103812558425454904.post-24882526699753045642015-06-27T14:59:55.939-04:002015-06-27T14:59:55.939-04:00Very interesting reading you're bringing us. I...Very interesting reading you're bringing us. It must be quite an anguish for someone as sensitive as Philip to see that. Then, at the same time, Philip has a way out, unfortunately for the poor people, they don't. <br /><br />Talking about America, I came across this, for a laugh:<br />Some American Delusions.<br />(i) That there is no class-consciousness in the country.<br />(ii) That My Maugham Collectionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16001690360958605423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1103812558425454904.post-48790818214273511442015-06-26T22:40:22.172-04:002015-06-26T22:40:22.172-04:00Maugham is saying no, people aren't any differ...Maugham is saying no, people aren't any different. He was such an extraordinary observer of human activity, and the human personality.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08967813811804895750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1103812558425454904.post-39928210500069919762015-06-26T22:38:18.718-04:002015-06-26T22:38:18.718-04:00Yes. I don't see Phillip-Mildred as the main t...Yes. I don't see Phillip-Mildred as the main theme like many do (as obviously Hollywood did), but rather like Phillip-the meaning of life. <br /><br />Another part of that observation I found was: when he believes he got Sally pregnant, is he no better than the people in the slums whose unwanted babies he was bringing into the world? That's an element of the book that escaped me 20 years Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08967813811804895750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1103812558425454904.post-86574144986941865722015-06-26T18:07:33.591-04:002015-06-26T18:07:33.591-04:00This is an immensely interesting observation. How ...This is an immensely interesting observation. How we do the same thing that we criticize in others.<br /><br />Curiously I am not so moved by what is the most prominent theme, as people usually see, in the book, i.e. Philip-Mildred. What had an impact on me when I read it again seriously a few years ago was how crippled Philip was when he had to decide the course of his life. How he tried My Maugham Collectionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16001690360958605423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1103812558425454904.post-51265912104501650732015-06-26T12:37:12.994-04:002015-06-26T12:37:12.994-04:00Hi, I just finished reading "Of Human Bondage...Hi, I just finished reading "Of Human Bondage" for the first time in 23 years. Returning to it as a middle-aged man, I get something very different from it than I did when I was 20, which is to say entertainment above all. When I was 20, I was still looking for many answers and perspective on a life I was just about to enter. Back then it definitely inspired in me a very serious Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08967813811804895750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1103812558425454904.post-21673692661803614682015-06-24T09:35:46.074-04:002015-06-24T09:35:46.074-04:00I guess like Maugham said, his characters were com...I guess like Maugham said, his characters were composite of people he knew and stories he heard of and himself, which I suspect, is the same case for other writers. On the other hand, many people seem to share similar fate and traits, which is an overwhelming thought. My Maugham Collectionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16001690360958605423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1103812558425454904.post-35459799274616835482015-06-23T18:25:42.096-04:002015-06-23T18:25:42.096-04:00No I've not read "Arrowsmith." I'...No I've not read "Arrowsmith." I'll check it out sometime though. It's funny you mention Cronshaw. I believe Cronshaw could have been Baudelaire (whom friends of Maugham may have known; he was broke at the end of his life and lived with a dark hussy who notoriously had affairs and kids with other men)) and also partially his older brother Harry Neville Maugham who wrote Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08967813811804895750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1103812558425454904.post-35946211636434175242015-06-23T17:01:12.347-04:002015-06-23T17:01:12.347-04:00Yes, Crowley married Kelly's sister Rose, a re...Yes, Crowley married Kelly's sister Rose, a relationship that didn't turn out very well; Rose became an alcoholic and suffered from some mental illness afterwards. Thinking about it now, I wonder if poor Margaret's marriage to Haddo in <i>The Magician</i> wasn't based on that. Perhaps critics have already written about that already. <br /><br />I am not going to search for it now,My Maugham Collectionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16001690360958605423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1103812558425454904.post-23318069172930271162015-06-22T18:47:02.742-04:002015-06-22T18:47:02.742-04:00When Maugham was in Paris in 1905 - didn't he ...When Maugham was in Paris in 1905 - didn't he also meet Crowley there too? Wasn't Gerald Kelly chummy with Crowley?<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08967813811804895750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1103812558425454904.post-52083081625345491562015-06-22T07:06:21.564-04:002015-06-22T07:06:21.564-04:00According to Calder, Maugham met Kelly in 1904, in...According to Calder, Maugham met Kelly in 1904, in Meudon; Kelly was a friend of his brother Charles and had been studying art in Paris for three years. Kelly's talk about Paris was the incentive for Maugham to go there in 1905. With Kelly's help, Maugham got an apartment in Montparnasse for £28 a year. The good old days! I wonder how much that is converting to present day value, still My Maugham Collectionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16001690360958605423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1103812558425454904.post-80680398427000303572015-06-21T20:42:09.692-04:002015-06-21T20:42:09.692-04:00I meant Lawson of course,I meant Lawson of course,Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08967813811804895750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1103812558425454904.post-12741149020809973992015-06-21T16:17:25.797-04:002015-06-21T16:17:25.797-04:00I'm currently reading "Of Human Bondage.&...I'm currently reading "Of Human Bondage." I'm just after Phillip breaks it off with Nora due to Mildred. Looking back on the chapters in Paris, and knowing that Lawton is based on Gerald Kelly, I'm wondering exactly how did Maugham and Gerald Kelly meet?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08967813811804895750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1103812558425454904.post-55996984511148802382015-06-14T12:40:15.423-04:002015-06-14T12:40:15.423-04:00Interesting. It's like you wrote earlier about...Interesting. It's like you wrote earlier about typos - how some are important while others are not. The fact that it's in the 1919 version makes it less important than the 'help' typo as it's not an indicator of a first edition, first printing.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08967813811804895750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1103812558425454904.post-43745268274448207872015-06-14T08:42:36.090-04:002015-06-14T08:42:36.090-04:00I didn't realize I had five copies of the book...I didn't realize I had five copies of the book. In two, 1915 and 1919, the error is there; it is corrected since the 1936 edition. My Maugham Collectionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16001690360958605423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1103812558425454904.post-6577234106991118852015-06-13T18:17:49.569-04:002015-06-13T18:17:49.569-04:00It's on page 20. I forgot to include that key ...It's on page 20. I forgot to include that key piece of information. :-)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08967813811804895750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1103812558425454904.post-78668178531014613882015-06-13T10:14:59.874-04:002015-06-13T10:14:59.874-04:00Hi Mike,
I was recording typos when reading the fi...Hi Mike,<br />I was recording typos when reading the first editions, and found it puzzling why so many of them were not registered. I suspect it is because the rest of the errors continue in later issues, and only the ones, such as the case of "help," that were revised are used to distinguish different printings. (I suppose you mean p. 257?) <br /><br />On which page is the one about My Maugham Collectionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16001690360958605423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1103812558425454904.post-43119838260165778832015-06-12T13:47:42.803-04:002015-06-12T13:47:42.803-04:00Hi, I just noticed another typo in the true first ...Hi, I just noticed another typo in the true first edition. 'eat' where it should be 'ate'. 17th line from the bottom. "Mrs. Carey seldom eat more than bread and butter, with a little stewed fruit to follow, but the Vicar had a slice of cold meat." I have the Doran with the more famous 'help' for 'helped' on page 157.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08967813811804895750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1103812558425454904.post-88710655941264408462015-04-19T19:24:23.243-04:002015-04-19T19:24:23.243-04:00Thanks for your help. I'm still trying to dec...Thanks for your help. I'm still trying to decide if I should sell or not.<br /><br />I purchased the book 4-5 years ago. Looks like I got a great deal!Tylerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08839999067862818947noreply@blogger.com