Servidão humana
A Literary Fiction, European Literature, Fiction book. Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading:...
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His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time he grew tired and restless; he was vain of the wider knowledge he had acquired from the perusal of so many books, his mind was alert, and he had not the skill to hide his contempt for his companions' stupidity. They complained that he was conceited; and, since he excelled only in matters which to them were unimportant, they asked satirically what he had to be conceited about. He was developing a sense of humour, and found that he had a knack of saying bitter... Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment. W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage // Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it. W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage //
I fell in love with this book; it spoke to me, and I will aways have a strong affection for it. After three weeks of opening its pages virtually every night, I now find myself saddened that I can no longer turn to it. How can anything else compare? Of Human Bondage is a classic in every positive sense of the word. Aside from The Brothers... (4.5) I chose to read this doorstopper from 1915 because it appeared in The Novel Cure on a list entitled The Ten Best Novels for Thirty-Somethings. By happy accident, I was also reading it throughout its centenary year. My knowledge of W. Somerset Maughams work was limited I had seen the 2006 film version of The Painted Veil but never... Wikipedia image of the first editionOf Human Bondage covers twenty years of living by a young man, Philip Carey, starting when he's a nine-year-old and loses his mother, herself recently widowed, to death during childbirth. The year is 1885. Thank you, Mr. Maugham, for giving me the year, although during the duration of the book I became...
