Of Human Bondage

<b>A masterpiece of modern literature that mirrors Maugham's own career.</b> <p/><i>Of Human Bondage</i> is the first and most autobiographical of Maugham's novels. It is the story of Philip Carey an orphan eager for life love and adventure. After a few months studying in Heidelberg and a brief spell in Paris as a would-be artist Philip settles in London to train as a doctor. And that is where he meets Mildred the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a formative tortured and masochistic affair which very nearly ruins him.