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30%OFFW. Somerset Maugham - Of Human Bondage - 9781841593692 - V9781841593692
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Of Human Bondage

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Description for Of Human Bondage hardcover. Philip's yearning for adventure takes him to Germany and later Paris where he tries to make his mark as an artist before returning to London to study medicine. Here, a tortured and one-sided love affair with Mildred, a vulgar yet irresistible waitress, changes the course of his life for ever. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 137 x 35. Weight in Grams: 650.
After a lonely boyhood, and the painful ordeal of his schooldays, Philip's yearning for adventure takes him to Germany and later Paris where he tries to make his mark as an artist before returning to London to study medicine. Here, a tortured and one-sided love affair with Mildred, a vulgar yet irresistible waitress, changes the course of his life for ever. Commenting later on the novel's autobiographical aspects, Maugham recalled how in writing the book he mingled fact and fiction and 'found myself free from the pains and unhappy recollections that had tormented me'.However, like Dickens's David ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Everyman
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1942
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781841593692
SKU
V9781841593692
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About W. Somerset Maugham
William Somerset Maugham, famous as novelist, playwright and short-story writer, was born in 1874, and lived in Paris until he was ten. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University. He spent some time at St. Thomas' Hospital with a view to practising medicine, but the success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, published in 1897, ... Read more

Reviews for Of Human Bondage
A work of genius.
Theodore Dreiser In Aspects of the Novel, E.M. Forster wrote: The final test of a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, of anything else that we cannot define. He might have been writing about W. Somerset Maugham's masterpiece, Of Human Bondage. ... Read more

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