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Of Human Bondage

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'There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.'Philip Carey's clubfoot has taught him about pain, but nothing prepares him for the self-inflicted torment of obsessive love. In W Somerset Maugham's unflinching portrait of a young man's education in life, Philip abandons religious certainty for medical school, trades London for Paris and art, and stumbles through relationships that both wound and teach. His devastating fixation on Mildred, a waitress who mistreats and exploits him, becomes the 'bondage' he cannot break, even as he recognizes his own captivity.This semi-autobiographical novel refuses easy answers. Instead, Maugham traces how we forge our own chains through passion, pride, and the desperate human need for meaning. Philip's struggle toward self-knowledge and acceptance feels startlingly modern: a young man learning that freedom begins when we stop clinging to the wrong people and the future we thought we deserved.

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