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Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, Fiction, Literary, Classics Hardcover - 2004
by W. Somerset Maugham
Summary
The first and most autobiographical of Maugham's masterpieces. 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, he settles in London to train as a doctor where he meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a tortured and masochistic affair.From the Trade Paperback edition.
First Edition Identification
George H. Duran and Company first published Of Human Bondage in New York in 1915. True first editions contain a point of issue on the fourth line of p. 257: "helped" misspelled “help.”
Details
- Title Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, Fiction, Literary, Classics
- Author W. Somerset Maugham
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 588
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wildside Press
- Date August 31, 2004
- ISBN 9780809587698 / 0809587696
- Weight 2.26 lbs (1.03 kg)
- Dimensions 9.26 x 6.42 x 1.64 in (23.52 x 16.31 x 4.17 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC