Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham - Dover Thrift Editions

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham is a semiautobiographical novel set between London and Paris at the end of the 19th century. This Dover Thrift Editions paperback is published by Dover Publications Inc.

Key details

• Author: W. Somerset Maugham
• Series: Dover Thrift Editions
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 576
• Publication date: 30 September 2019
• ISBN: 9780486832401

Synopsis

Unfolding across London and Paris at the close of the 19th century, this semiautobiographical work follows Philip Carey, a sensitive orphan living with a club foot and the daily sting of being shunned at school. As he grows older, his artistic ambitions are tested by a dawning sense of his own limitations.

At the same time, a consuming infatuation with Mildred, a waitress he sees as vulgar, begins to erode what remains of his idealism. A classic of biography and memoir-inflected fiction, it suits readers drawn to psychologically observant literary novels.

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