num_pages: 610
description: 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 Maugham’s own life, his masterpiece is “not an autobiography,” as the author himself once contended, “but an autobiographical novel; fact and fiction are inexorably mingled; the emotions are my own.”
language: English
title: Of Human Bondage
titlecomplete: Of Human Bondage (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
characters: Cronshaw, Emily Wilkinson, Mildred Rogers, Fanny Price (Of Human Bondage), Ruth Chalice, Thorpe Athelny, Frederick Lawson, Louisa Carey, Dr. Tyrell, Dr. South, Hayward, Sally Athelny, Harry Griffiths, Philip Carey, Norah Nesbit, Betty Athelny
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Classic Literature, Coming Of Age, Fiction, Romance, British Literature
ratings_count: 55886
places: Heidelberg, London, England, Brighton and Hove, Sussex, England, England, Paris, Blackstable, Kent, England
publisher: Penguin Classics