Of Human Bondage
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Of Human Bondage
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
|---|---|
| Published | 1915 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Maugham’s most autobiographical novel: Philip Carey, orphaned and born with a club foot, abandons accountancy and then painting before settling into medicine, through a humiliating attachment to a waitress named Mildred. A deliberately unconsoling education in the slow subtraction of illusions — the counterweight to books in which effort is rewarded. |
Of Human Bondage
Where I heard about it
- Dissident Teacher — on A Library to Build Great Americans, a 468-title curriculum published on Substack in December 2025, in the Ages 13–99+ band under Fiction.
About this edition
W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) qualified as a physician before writing full time. Of Human Bondage appeared in 1915, and its reputation was made largely by Theodore Dreiser’s review of it.
Connections
- A Library to Build Great Americans — the 468-title curriculum this card came from; listed in the Ages 13-99+ band under Fiction.
- W. Somerset Maugham — the author.
- Ambition — the engine of the plot, and its undoing.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.