Of Human Bondage. [hardcover]
by Maugham, W. Somerset
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG+/Good dj. (former owner's address labels else a nice clean/tight/bright reading copy.
- Seller
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Beverly Hills, Florida, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, NY. Doubleday. (c1915, 1936) HARDCOVER. VG+/Good dj. (former owner's address labels else a nice clean/tight/bright reading copy. 8vo. Foreword by the author. vi. + 565pp. BOOK CLUB edition. Blue cloth & black cloth back, top edge tinted. Blurb by Theodore Dreiser on jacket front, photograph of Maugham on back. a nice reading copy.
Synopsis
Of Human Bondage is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. It is generally agreed to be his masterpiece and to be strongly autobiographical in nature, although Maugham stated, "This is a novel, not an autobiography, though much in it is autobiographical, more is pure invention. " Maugham, who had originally planned to call his novel Beauty from Ashes, finally settled on a title taken from Spinoza's Ethics
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- Seller
- Booktopia (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 6081813
- Title
- Of Human Bondage. [hardcover]
- Author
- Maugham, W. Somerset
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/Good dj. (former owner's address labels else a nice clean/tight/bright reading copy.
- Publisher
- Doubleday.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY.
- Date Published
- (c1915, 1936)
- Pages
- vi. + 565pp.
- Keywords
- 20th Century English Literature Novels Fiction, William Somerset Maugham
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