Of Human Bondage -

W. Somerset Maugham

Everyman’s Library

2015

712 páginas

23h 44m

ISBN-13: 9781101907689

Born with a clubfoot, Philip is orphaned as a child and raised by unsympathetic relatives. Sent to a boarding school where he has difficulty fitting in, he grows up with an intense longing for love, art, and experience. After failing to become an artist in Paris, he begins medical studies in London, where he meets Mildred, a cold-hearted waitress with whom he falls into a powerful, tortured, life-altering love affair. This is the most autobiographical of Maugham’s works, with Philip’s malformed foot standing in for Maugham’s stutter, and the character’s painful romantic struggles inspired by the author’s own intense love affairs with both men and women. A brilliant and deeply moving portrayal of the price of passion and the universal desire for connection, Of Human Bondage stands as one of the most accomplished novels in English literature.

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Romance semi autobiográfico publicado em 1915 e considerado sua obra-prima. É uma representação perspicaz do isolamento emocional de um jovem e de sua eventual visão da vida.

Nascido com um pé torto, Philip Carey é extremamente sensível à sua deficiência. Como estudante de medicina em Londres, ele conhece uma garçonete egoísta e infiel, por quem desenvolve uma paixão avassaladora. Quando Philip termina a faculdade de medicina, ele inicia um relacionamento amoroso com outra mulher, cuja possível gravidez o obriga a examinar sua vida.