Of Human Bondage
Language: English
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Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: Mar 29, 2018
Collection:
Fiction
Reading Ease:
84.92
Page Count:
836
Topic:
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Word Count:
260319
Book Details
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Description:
Maugham’s semi-autobiographical masterpiece follows a club-footed orphan’s rise in the medical profession and his lifelong search for happiness.
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Considered by many to be Maugham’s masterpiece, Of Human Bondage is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale. The novel follows Philip, a sensitive young man interested in literature and art, as he searches for happiness in London and Paris. Philip, the ostensible stand-in for Maugham, suffers from a club foot, a physical representation of the stutter that Maugham himself suffered. Philip’s love life, a central aspect to the book, also mirrors Maugham’s own stormy affairs.
Maugham originally titled the book “Beauty from Ashes” before settling on the final title, taken from a section of Spinoza’s Ethics in which he discusses how one’s inability to control one’s emotions results in a form of bondage.