From a tormented orphan with a clubfoot, Philip Carey grows into an impressionable young man with a voracious appetite for adventure and knowledge. His cravings take him to Paris at age eighteen to try his hand at art, then back to London to study medicine. But even so, nothing can sate his nagging hunger for experience. Then he falls obsessively in love, embarking on a disastrous relationship that will change his life forever.

Marked by countless similarities to W. Somerset Maugham’s own life, Of Human Bondage is not an autobiography but an autobiographical novel; fact and fiction are inexorably mingled; the emotions are the author’s own. And although he based this masterpiece on what he knew, his is an “excessively rare gift of storytelling…almost the equal of imagination itself.”

With an Introduction by Benjamin De Mott and an Afterword by Maeve Binchy.

The Sunday Times (London)

Publisher: Signet
Publication Date: January 2, 2007
Print Length: 704 pages
ISBN-10: 451530179
ISBN-13: 978-0451530172
Dimensions: 4.25 x 1.1 x 6.88 inches