Of Human Bondage

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  Of Human Bondage

  By William Somerset Maugham

  "I'm going to bring you back fat and rosy." "I don't want to get fat," shesaid. She did not speakof Griffiths, and presently while they were dining Philip half in malice, for he felt sure of himself and his power over her, ...

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  OF HUMAN BONDAGE: One of the Top 100 Best Novels of the 20th century by the prolific British playwright, novelist...

  By William Somerset Maugham

  of General Gordon." Then the horrid fact was disclosed that the new head had a mania for general information. He had doubts about the utility of examinations on subjects which had been crammed for the occasion. He wanted common sense.

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  Of Human Bondage

  By W. Somerset Maugham

  The story-taking its title from Spinoza's Ethics: "Of human bondage, or the strength of the emotions"-follows Philip Carey in his search for freedom from the strict, oppressive Christian upbringing he suffered as an orphan in an English ...

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  Of Human Bondage

  By W. Somerset Maugham

  A masterpiece of modern literature that mirrors Maugham’s own career. Of Human Bondage is the first and most autobiographical of Maugham's novels. It is the story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure.

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  Of Human Bondage

  By William Somerset Maugham

  "'It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham, ' wrote Gore Vidal. 'He was always...

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  Of Human Bondage

  By William Somerset Maugham

  Of Human Bondage is a potent expression of the power of sexual obsession and of modern man's yearning for freedom. This classic bildungsroman tells the story of Philip Carey, a...

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  Of Human Bondage

  By W. Somerset Maugham

  There is no more powerful story of sexual infatuation, of human longing for connection and freedom. "Here is a novel of the utmost importance," wrote Theodore Dreiser on publication.

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  Of Human Bondage

  By William Somerset Maugham

  From a tormented orphan with a clubfoot, Philip Carey grows into an impressionable young man with a voracious appetite for adventure and knowledge.

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  Of Human Bondage

  By William Somerset Maugham

  Of Human Bondage is generally considered to be Somerset Maugham's masterpiece in a long, versatile, and extremely distinguished literary career that stretched from Liza of Lambeth in 1897 to A...

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  Of Human Bondage

  By William Somerset Maugham

  Of Human Bondage

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  Of Human Bondage

  By W. Somerset Maugham

  With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of W. Somerset Maugham’s Of Human Bondage is a classic work of British literature reimagined for modern readers.

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  Of Human Bondage

  By W. Somerset Maugham

  The novel is considered a masterpiece, and is also highly autobiographical, though Maugham claimed: "This is a novel, not an autobiography, though much in it is autobiographical, more is pure invention."

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  Of Human Bondage

  By William Somerset Maugham

  "...all they have been told are lies, lies, lies; and each discovery is another nail driven into the body on the cross of life." -W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage...

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  Of Human Bondage

  By W. Somerset Maugham

  Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham's masterpiece, follows the life of the orphaned Philip Carey through both heartbreak and happiness, as he grows up in a small town under the care of his aunt and uncle.

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  Of Human Bondage

  By William Somerset Maugham, Penguin Adult Hc/Tr

  Her voice was so weak that it seemed to come already from a great distance.

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  Of Human Bondage

  By W. Somerset Maugham

  There is no more powerful story of sexual infatuation, of human longing for connection and freedom. "Here is a novel of the utmost importance," wrote Theodore Dreiser on publication.

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  Of Human Bondage

  By Somerset Maugham

  This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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  OF HUMAN BONDAGE

  By W. Somerset

  This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.