Of Human Bondage - Hardcover

Maugham, W. Somerset: - W. Somerset Maugham was one of the most widely read British writers of the twentieth century, known for his novels, short stories, plays, and travel-inflected fiction. Born in Paris in 1874 and educated in England and Germany, Maugham trained as a physician before turning fully to literature, an experience that helped shape the clinical precision and unsentimental observation found throughout his work. His fiction is marked by lucid prose, social intelligence, psychological restraint, and a deep interest in human weakness, compromise, ambition, self-deception, and desire.Maugham achieved international success with works including Of Human Bondage, The Moon and Sixpence, The Painted Veil, Cakes and Ale, and The Razor's Edge, as well as many influential short stories. His writing often draws on travel, colonial settings, artistic life, medical training, and the moral ambiguities of respectable society. Of Human Bondage, first published in 1915, is generally regarded as his most autobiographical and enduring novel, a major work of classic British fiction and psychological realism centred on youth, obsession, disappointment, and the long struggle toward self-knowledge.