Of Human Bondage

A vintage Penguin Books paperback in very good condition. Covers show light wear with a small crease to the top corner of the front cover, the classic black and orange Penguin cover design remains bright and unfaded. Pages are clean and completely free of any marks, stamps, or annotations. Binding is firm and tight, with no cracking to the spine. A well-preserved example of the classic Penguin edition. This Penguin Books edition of Of Human Bondage, first published in the Penguin imprint in 1963 and here in a 1983 reprint, presents the 1915 masterwork of W. Somerset Maugham. Of Human Bondage has been continuously in print for over a century and is universally regarded as Maugham's masterpiece. Semi-autobiographical, the novel follows Philip Carey, an orphan raised by his clergyman uncle in Kent, through his years as an art student in Paris and his training as a medical student in London, where a ruinous and all-consuming passion for the waitress Mildred Rogers brings him to the edge of destruction. One of the great novels of obsession in English literature, its title is taken from a section of Spinoza's Ethics. Ships within Canada.