Download or read book Of Human Bondage written by W. Somerset Maugham and published by Bantam Classics. This book was released on 1991-06-01 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterpiece of modern literature that mirrors Maugham’s own career. Of Human Bondage is the first and most autobiographical of Maugham's novels. It is the story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure. After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as a would-be artist, Philip settles in London to train as a doctor. And that is where he meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a formative, tortured and masochistic affair which very nearly ruins him.