Of human bondage /
"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 rea...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Mineola, New York :
Dover Publications, Inc.,
2019.
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| Series: | Dover thrift editions.
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| Summary: | "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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| Item Description: | "This Dover edition, first published in 2019, is an unabridged republication of the work originally printed by Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, in 1915." |
| Physical Description: | pages ; cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780486832401 0486832406 |