About the Book: Of Human Bondage
After a lonely boyhood, and the painful ordeal of his schooldays, Philips
yearning for adventure takes him to Germany and later Paris where he tries to
make his mark as an artist before returning to London to study medicine. Here, a
tortured and one-sided love affair with Mildred, a vulgar yet irresistible
waitress, changes the course of his life for ever. Commenting later on the
novels autobiographical aspects, Maugham recalled how in writing the book he
mingled fact and fiction and found myself free from the pains and unhappy
recollections that had tormented me.However, like Dickens David Copperfield to
which it is