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Of Human Bondage: Introduction by Selina Hastings (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series) (Hardcover)

Of Human Bondage: Introduction by Selina Hastings (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series) By W. Somerset Maugham, Selina Hastings (Introduction by) Cover Image
By W. Somerset Maugham, Selina Hastings (Introduction by)
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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.

About the Author


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.

Praise For…


“[Of Human Bondage] was an entirely new departure. Maugham, who usually cultivates a fastidious detachment, shows in this work a personal commitment that was unusual, sweeping the reader up in his own passionate intensity. Compelling and uncompromising, written with an unflagging energy and drive, the work could hardly be more different from any he had previously published . . . The story closely follow[s] the events of Maugham’s early life, with at its centre the terrifying experience of a masochistic sexual obsession.” —from the Introduction by Selina Hastings


Product Details
ISBN: 9781101907689
ISBN-10: 1101907681
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Publication Date: October 6th, 2015
Pages: 712
Language: English
Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series