Who wrote Of Human Bondage?

W. Somerset Maugham wrote Of Human Bondage, first published in 1915. It is a work of classics and is rated 'Essential Read' in our catalogue.

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Essential Read

Of Human Bondage

Name: Of Human Bondage
Author: W. Somerset Maugham

by W. Somerset Maugham · 1915

Classics · ranked #56 in category

Philip Carey, orphaned and self-conscious about his club foot, grows up seeking freedom — from his religious guardian, from his art studies in Paris, from his obsessive and self-destructive love for a waitress named Mildred. Maugham's semi-autobiographical novel is one of the last great Victorian Bildungsromane and one of the most precise accounts of how the wrong person can own you.

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