Sommerset maughm of human bondage

What's the time before birth? Your writing is so rich, it's like a big heap of chocolate mousse cake. Doran Company. The glimpses when someone points out to you a fact weeeelll about yourself that pulls off every straggled hair as it is yanked off. I was constantly swept off my feet by Maugham's ability to display the wretched and beautiful in smoothly written, truthful ways. You just keep doin what you do. I loved the parts of the novel which dealt with the Bohemian lifestyle in Paris.

He is made up of a dozen people and the greater part of him is myself"—yet in an introduction written for the Modern Library edition of the work, he plainly states that Walpole was the inspiration for Kear while denying that Thomas Hardy was the inspiration for the novelist Driffield. New York: Abelard-Schuman. The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham. Of Human Bondage is a novel by W. First edition. Error rating book. Somerset Maugham East Persia Cordon.

However, Dr. Maugham was a nonbeliever , having stated that he remained agnostic to the questions concerning the existence of God. Philip's uncle has a vast collection of books, and Philip enjoys reading to find ways to escape his mundane existence. During and after the war, he travelled in India, Southeast Asia and the Pacific, and those experiences were reflected in later short stories and novels.