For the film adaptations of this novel, see Of Human Bondage (film).
Of Human Bondage
First edition
Author
W. Somerset Maugham
Language
English
Genre
Bildungsroman
Publisher
George H. Doran Company
Publication date
1915
Media type
Print, hardback
Pages
648
OCLC
343641
Dewey Decimal
823.912
LC Class
PR6025.A86 O4 1915
Of Human Bondage is a 1915 novel by W. Somerset Maugham. The novel is generally agreed to be Maugham's masterpiece and to be strongly autobiographical in nature, although he stated, "This is a novel, not an autobiography; though much in it is autobiographical, more is pure invention."[1] Maugham, who had originally planned to call his novel Beauty from Ashes, finally settled on a title taken from a section of Spinoza's Ethics.[2] The Modern Library ranked Of Human Bondage No. 66 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.
^Dated 28 August 1957, author's inscription in a first edition for Californian book collector, Ingle Barr.
^Rogal, Samuel J. (1997). Maugham encyclopedia. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9780313299162.
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