Of Human Bondage

W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)

Original en 259317 words First published 1915 United Kingdom

W. Somerset Maugham's 1915 autobiographical masterpiece, the novel he considered his best. Philip Carey, born with a club foot, orphaned young, tries to escape his wound — through Heidelberg, through Paris as an art student, through a medical career — and above all through his catastrophic, degrading passion for the cold, empty waitress Mildred Rogers, who ruins him systematically while he cannot stop loving her. A long, clear-eyed portrait of how a man builds a self out of limitation and failure, and one of the great novels of growing up.

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