Of Human Bondage
1915
$512.00
Of Human Bondage by W Somerset Maugham. First UK edition and impression rebound in half leather and marbled boards with gold gilt and raised bands to spine, cream endpapers. The word 'helped' is misprinted 'help' P257, line 4.
About Of Human Bondage
A masterpiece of modern literature that mirrors Maugham’s own career. Of Human Bondage is the first and most autobiographical of Maugham's novels. It is the story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure. After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as a would-be artist, Philip settles in London to train as a doctor. And that is where he meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a formative, tortured and masochistic affair which very nearly ruins him.
