| Of Human Bondage Anniversary Edition Contributor(s): Maugham, W. Somerset (Author), Demott, Benjamin (Introduction by), Binchy, Maeve (Afterword by) |
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ISBN: 0451530179 ISBN-13: 9780451530172 Publisher: Signet Book OUR PRICE: $5.36 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: January 2007 Annotation: From an orphan with a clubfoot, Philip Carey grows into an impressionable young man with a voracious appetite for adventure and knowledge. Then he falls obsessively in love, embarking on a disastrous relationship that will change his life forever. Revised reissue. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Coming Of Age - Fiction | Romance - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2007273165 |
| Physical Information: 1.21" H x 4.24" W x 6.84" (0.71 lbs) 704 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 10042 Reading Level: 8.3 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 48.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From a tormented orphan with a clubfoot, Philip Carey grows into an impressionable young man with a voracious appetite for adventure and knowledge. His cravings take him to Paris at age eighteen to try his hand at art, then back to London to study medicine. But even so, nothing can sate his nagging hunger for experience. Then he falls obsessively in love, embarking on a disastrous relationship that will change his life forever.... Marked by countless similarities to Maugham's own life, his masterpiece is "not an autobiography," as the author himself once contended, "but an autobiographical novel; fact and fiction are inexorably mingled; the emotions are my own." And although he based Of Human Bondage on what he knew, his is an "excessively rare gift of storytelling...almost the equal of imagination itself."* With an Introduction by Benjamin De Mott and an Afterword by Maeve Binchy *The Sunday Times (London) |