Of Human Bondage

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.”