Of Human Bondage (English edition)

CALDER, Robert

Penguin??Books

William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was one of the most prominent and productive authors of the twentieth century--and his works have been among the most cinematically transformed in history. For more than five decades, adaptations of his plays, stories, and novels dominated movie theaters and, later, television screens. More than ninety individual works were filmed, and for many filmgoers his name was a greater draw than that of the director. Works such as Of Human Bondage, "The Letter," The Painted Veil, "Rain," The Razor's Edge, and others were produced multiple times, with starring roles sought by actors like Bette Davis, Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo, Lionel Barrymore, Charles Laughton, and Bill Murray. This study of the famous author explores the relationship between literature and film, what is involved in adaptation, and how best to judge films based on celebrated books. Robert Calder, the world's leading scholar of Maugham's work, offers fascinating production histories, insight into both fortunate and misguided casting decisions, shrewd analyses of performances and film techniques, and summaries of public and critical responses. Maugham's characters were often conflicted, iconoclastic, and morally out of step with their times, which may have accounted for the popularity of his fiction. Most of Maugham's works could be adapted to satisfy the tastes of moviegoers and the demands of the Hays Office censors, if not the expectations of their author.&nbsp;

Somerset Maugham and the Cinema (Wisconsin Film Studies)

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

University of Wisconsin Press

Calder, Robert, Williie: The Life Of W. Somerset Maugham

Willie: The Life of W. Somerset Maugham

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

St Martins Pr

The Dogs

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd

Hodder & Stoughton General Division

Willie: The Life of W. Somerset Maugham.

Calder, Robert, Dogs, The: A Novel

The dogs: A novel

Delacorte

A Richer Dust: Family, Memory and the Second World War

History

Viking/Penguin

A group of shipwrecked Spaniards washed onto the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in 1512, leading to first contact between the Spanish and the Maya. Two men survived the ordeal: Jerónimo de Aguilar, who became a translator for Hernán Cortés in his conquest of the Aztecs, and Gonzalo Guerrero, who, as legend has it, embraced the Mayan way of life and skillfully led the opposition to the Spanish take-over of the Yucatán.
 Reviled in 16th-century Spain as an apostate and a traitor, Guerrero is today remembered all over the Yucatán with statues and images, and as the symbolic father of millions of Mexican mestizos. But like Robin Hood and King Arthur, Guerrero's story has become embellished by legend and myth. The product of fifteen years of research by a Governor General's Award winner, A Hero for the Americas is the first comprehensive investigation of this controversial figure.

A Hero for the Americas: The Legend of Gonzalo Guerrero

Community & Culture

University of Regina Press

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