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Of Human Bondage Mass market paperbound - 2007

by W. Somerset Maugham; Introduction by Benjamin Demott; Afterword by Maeve Binchy

From an orphan with a clubfoot, Philip Carey grows into an impressionable young man with a voracious appetite for adventure and knowledge. Then he falls obsessively in love, embarking on a disastrous relationship that will change his life forever. Revised reissue.


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From an orphan with a clubfoot, Philip Carey grows into an impressionable young man with a voracious appetite for adventure and knowledge. Then he falls obsessively in love, embarking on a disastrous relationship that will change his life forever.

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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." And although he based Of Human Bondage 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)

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.”

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  • Title Of Human Bondage
  • Author W. Somerset Maugham; Introduction by Benjamin Demott; Afterword by Maeve Binchy
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition Anniversary
  • Pages 704
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Signet Book, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 2007-01-02
  • ISBN 9780451530172 / 0451530179
  • Weight 0.71 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.84 x 4.24 x 1.21 in (17.37 x 10.77 x 3.07 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Topical: Coming of Age
  • Library of Congress subjects People with disabilities, Bildungsromans
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007273165
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) studied medicine, but the quick success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth (1897), started him on his lifelong literary career, during which he would become one of the most popular English authors since Dickens. His own life, however, was more tragic, shocking, and fascinating than any novel. After his adored parents died, he grew up in a miserable vicarage and suffered from a physical handicap of which he was ashamed. During his lifetime, Maugham would marry and divorce, be sent to Russia as a spy, and entertain such celebrities as Jean Cocteau, Winston Churchill, Nol Coward, the Aga Khan, and Ian Fleming at his Riviera mansion. Among his masterpieces are Of Human Bondage, The Painted Veil, The Razor's Edge, and The Moon and Sixpence. In addition, such works as "The Letter" and "Rain" established Maugham as a gifted short story writer. Benjamin DeMott (1924-2005) was professor of English and the Mellon professor of humanities at Amherst College. The author of two novels, he was best known for his cultural criticism in leading periodicals and in such books as The Imperial Middle: Why Americans Can't Think Straight About Class and The Trouble with Friendship: Why Americans Can't Think Straight About Race. Maeve Binchy (1940-2012) was the New York Times bestselling author of Quentins, Scarlet Feather, Tara Road (an Oprah's Book Club Selection), Circle of Friends, Light a Penny Candle, and many other novels.
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