Of Human Bondage: Introduction by Selina Hastings by Maugham, W. Somerset

Of Human Bondage: Introduction by Selina Hastings (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781101907689)

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Of Human Bondage: Introduction by Selina Hastings by Maugham, W. Somerset

Of Human Bondage: Introduction by Selina Hastings

$26.95
Of Human Bondage: Introduction by Selina Hastings by Maugham, W. Somerset

Of Human Bondage: Introduction by Selina Hastings

$26.95
Format: Hardcover
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W. Somerset Maugham's masterwork is the coming-of-age story of Philip Carey, a sensitive young man consumed by an unrequited and self-destructive love.

Born with a clubfoot, Philip is orphaned as a child and raised by unsympathetic relatives. Sent to a boarding school where he has difficulty fitting in, he grows up with an intense longing for love, art, and experience. After failing to become an artist in Paris, he begins medical studies in London, where he meets Mildred, a cold-hearted waitress with whom he falls into a powerful, tortured, life-altering love affair. This is the most autobiographical of Maugham's works, with Philip's malformed foot standing in for Maugham's stutter, and the character's painful romantic struggles inspired by the author's own intense love affairs with both men and women. A brilliant and deeply moving portrayal of the price of passion and the universal desire for connection, Of Human Bondage stands as one of the most accomplished novels in English literature.

Author: W. Somerset Maugham
ISBN-10: 1101907681
ISBN-13: 9781101907689
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Language: English
Published: 10/06/2015
Pages: 712
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.20w x 1.30d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 8.3
Point Value: 48
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 10042 / Of Human Bondage
By W. Somerset Maugham
By W. Somerset Maugham
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W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM was born in Paris in 1874. He trained as a doctor in London where he started writing his first novels. In 1926 he bought a house in Cap Ferrat, France, which was to become a meeting place for a number of writers, artists and politicians. He died in 1965.

SELINA HASTINGS is the author of acclaimed biographies of Somerset Maugham, Nancy Mitford, and Rosamond Lehmann, and her biography of Evelyn Waugh won the Marsh Biography Award.

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