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Of Human Bondage

Of Human Bondage

Author(s): William Somerset Maugham

Location(s): England, Heidelberg, London

Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

Era(s): Turn of the 20th Century

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Of Human Bondage is absoulute Somerset Maugham.
The book is set in the last decades of the nineteenth century and, part autobiographical, it is about a young orphan, his apprenticeship in art, then medicine as well as the theme of love. Philip is raised in an English country vicarage, then he moves on to Heidelberg, then Paris among a community of apriing artist. He then returns to London which is full of the high life and sordidness and becomes involved in a love affair that becomes his compusion.

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Somerset Maugham is THE mast at creating evocative exotic settings, this book is an absolute delight – Trisha Bairstowe –

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