Paperback, 614 pages
Published May 25, 1978 by Penguin (Non-Classics).
Of Human Bondage
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The first and most autobiographical of Maugham's masterpieces. 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, he settles in London to train as a doctor where he meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a tortured and masochistic affair.
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- Fiction
- Literary
- Fiction / General
- Literature - Classics / Criticism
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