Of Human Bondage

Synopsis

W. Somerset maugham's semiautobiographical masterpiece unfolds in london and paris at the end of the 19th century. The protagonist, philip carey, is a sensitive orphan who's burdened with a club foot and shunned by his schoolmates. Philip's artistic aspirations fade with his realization of his own mediocrity, and his hopeless infatuation with mildred, a vulgar waitress, threatens to destroy what's left of his idealism.