720 pages
English language
Published 2010 by Penguin Random House.
Of Human Bondage
William Somerset Maugham: Of Human Bondage (2010, Penguin Random House)
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- 978-1-4070-1645-0
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Of Human Bondage is a moving exploration of loneliness, obsessive love, and a young man's search for meaning and direction in life. Written in the third person, it tells the story of Philip Carey, a self-conscious orphan with a club-foot who learns medicine. Not only is this a significant work in the Bildungsroman tradition, but its largely autobiographical basis gives it a special interest in view of the exceptional public success that Somerset Maugham was to enjoy over several decades.
Subjects
- England, fiction
- Physicians, fiction
- Artists, fiction
- British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- People with disabilities, fiction
- Fiction, coming of age