Saturday, June 28, 2014

Review: Of Human Bondage


Of Human Bondage
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



A well written, but strange book, though I suppose the same could be said of its author. The first two thirds of the book remind me of a Thomas Hardy novel, with all the grim foreboding that entails, and you reach a point where you think it can only end in two gunshots. Then suddenly, with the turn of the page, a character who could have sprung from the forehead of Dickens appears, complete with an appropriate family, and you know somehow that all will end well.



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