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Name: Of Human Bondage

Author: W. Somerset Maugham
Year: 1915
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Classic, Fiction, Free books, Romance

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ISBNs:
9780451530172
9780553213928
0451530179
055321392X

Originally published in 1915, Of Human Bondage is a potent expression of the power of sexual obsession and of modern man's yearning for freedom. This classic bildungsroman tells the story of Philip Carey, a sensitive boy born with a clubfoot who is orphaned and raised by a religious aunt and uncle.
Philip yearns for adventure, and at eighteen leaves home, eventually pursuing a career as an artist in Paris. When he returns to London to study medicine, he meets the androgynous but alluring Mildred and begins a doomed love affair that will change the course of his life.
There is no more powerful story of sexual infatuation, of human longing for connection and freedom.