Of Human Bondage [Hardcover] W. Summset Maugham - Hardcover

W. Summset Maugham

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1841593699 ISBN 13: 9781841593692

Publisher: Random House, 1942

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About the Author:

William Somerset Maugham (25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest paid author during the 1930s. Not wanting to become a lawyer like other men in his family, Maugham eventually trained and qualified as a physician. The initial run of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth (1897), sold out so rapidly that Maugham gave up medicine to write full-time.

Review:

"A work of genius." -- Theodore Dreiser "In Aspects of the Novel, E.M. Forster wrote: "The final test of a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, of anything else that we cannot define." He might have been writing about W. Somerset Maugham's masterpiece, Of Human Bondage." -- Robert McCrum Guardian (2014) "I do not know of any living writer who seems to have his work so much under control." -- Evelyn Waugh "A deeply imagined and powerfully moving novel." New Yorker (2010) "Maugham, who usually cultivated a fastidious detachment, shows in this work a personal commitment that was unusual, sweeping the reader up in his own passionate intensity." -- Selina Hastings

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House
• Publication date: 1942
• ISBN 10: 1841593699
• ISBN 13: 9781841593692
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 760