Of Human Bondage has become one of the most widely read and influential books ever written.

Published in hundreds of editions and translated into virtually every modern language, it has not been out of print since 1915.

W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM (1874-1965), transformed the art of fiction. Author of numerous novels, plays, and short stories, including The Moon and Sixpence, The Painted Veil, and Of Human Bondage, he is considered to be a literary colossus, and a central figure in the development of the modern novel.