Of Human Bondage, with a Digression on the Art of Fiction: An address

by W. Somerset Maugham

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A club-footed orphan struggles for independence, his intellectual development and his attempt to become an artist.

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Writer William Somerset Maugham was born in Paris on January 25, 1874. He attended St. Thomas's Medical School in London. A prolific writer, Maugham produced novels, short stories, plays, and an autobiographical novel, "Of Human Bondage." Although he remains popular for his novels and short stories, when he was alive his plays, now dated, were show more also popular, and in 1908 four of his plays ran simultaneously. Maugham died in Nice, France, on December 16, 1965. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Canonical title
Of Human Bondage, with a Digression on the Art of Fiction: An address
Original publication date
1946-04
Important places
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., USA
Original language
English
Disambiguation notice
Please do not combine Of Human Bondage with "Of human bondage, with a digression on the art of fiction : an address". The latter is a 16 page essay, and is not the novel itself.

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Genres
Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
DDC/MDS
808.3Literature & rhetoricLiterature, rhetoric & criticismRhetoric and collections of literary texts from more than two literaturesRhetoric of fiction
LCC
PR6025 .A86 .O5Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish Literature1900-1960

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