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Of Human Bondage

With an Introduction by Benjamin DeMott and an Afterword by Maeve Binchy
TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
704 Seiten
Englisch
Penguin USerschienen am02.01.2007100th Anniversary Edition
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)
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KlappentextFrom 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)
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-451-53017-2
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2007
Erscheinungsdatum02.01.2007
Auflage100th Anniversary Edition
Seiten704 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht310 g
Artikel-Nr.11771182
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Kritik
The modern writer who has influenced me the most. George Orwell
One of my favorite writers. Gabriel García Marquez
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Autor

William Somerset Maugham (1874 1965) studied medicine, but the quick success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth (1897), started him on his lifelong literary career, during which he would become one of the most popular English authors since Dickens. His own life, however, was more tragic, shocking, and fascinating than any novel. After his adored parents died, he grew up in a miserable vicarage and suffered from a physical handicap of which he was ashamed. During his lifetime, Maugham would marry and divorce, be sent to Russia as a spy, and entertain such celebrities as Jean Cocteau, Winston Churchill, Noël Coward, the Aga Khan, and Ian Fleming at his Riviera mansion. Among his masterpieces are Of Human Bondage, The Painted Veil, The Razor s Edge, and The Moon and Sixpence. In addition, such works as The Letter and Rain established Maugham as a gifted short story writer.

Benjamin DeMott (1924 2005) was professor of English and the Mellon professor of humanities at Amherst College. The author of two novels, he was best known for his cultural criticism in leading periodicals and in such books as The Imperial Middle: Why Americans Can t Think Straight About Class and The Trouble with Friendship: Why Americans Can t Think Straight About Race.

Maeve Binchy (1940 2012) was the New York Times bestselling author of Quentins, Scarlet Feather, Tara Road (an Oprah s Book Club Selection), Circle of Friends, Light a Penny Candle, and many other novels.