Maugham, W. Somerset

Of human bondage / W. Somerset Maugham. - England : Penguin Books, c1963. - 606 p.

"W. Somerset Maugham's semiautobiographical masterpiece unfolds in London and Paris at the end of the 19th century. The protagonist, Philip Carey, is a sensitive orphan who's burdened with a club foot and shunned by his schoolmates. Philip's artistic aspirations fade with his realization of his own mediocrity, and his hopeless infatuation with Mildred, a vulgar waitress, threatens to destroy what's left of his idealism"



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People with disabilities--Fiction.
Physicians--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.
Artists--Fiction.
England--Fiction.
Bildungsromane.

D M442 1963