All her life, Ervine Tate had borne her family’s burdens. She had taken care of her helpless parents, supported her brothers and sisters, freed the farm from debt. Now, her responsibilities ended, she was desperately sick herself—sick with the realization that, at 32, life offered nothing but a lonely spinsterhood, a “deadly empty vacant this.”
Then—a letter from a sister in need…a telegram from an ailing brother…a desperate call for help from the man she almost married…
Trouble made Ervine’s life worth living again. What happened to her because others needed her is told by Fannie Hurst in this warmly human, understanding story. “Some Call It Bondage” was written especially for the first issue of “This Week”, the new 32-page magazine printed in gravure and colorgravure, which becomes a regular part of the Sunday New York Herald Tribune Tomorrow.
To the features which have won high praise for the current magazine—articles on economics, world affairs, the Home Institute, crossword puzzles—will be added the best in contemporary fiction.
Authors whose work appears in this first issue include Sinclair Lewis, (with the first installment of a new serial, “Seven Million Dollars”,) Rupert Hughes, Dorothy L. Sayers, Roy Chapman Andrews, I. A. R. Wylie, Andre Maurois, and others.
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