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Of Human Bondage

W. Somerset Maugham (Author)

  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • 720 Page / Published 2000-02-03
  • Category: Fiction , Classics
  • ISBN: 9780099284963
  • Language: English
  • Format: PB
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W. Somerset Maugham

William Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. He spoke French even before he spoke a word of English, a fact to which some critics attribute the purity of his style.....

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A masterpiece of modern literature that mirrors Maugham's own career. Of Human Bondage is the first and most autobiographical of Maugham's novels. It is the story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure. After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as a would-be artist, Philip settles in London to train as a doctor. And that is where he meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a formative, tortured and masochistic affair which very nearly ruins him.