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The burden of human passions

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A largely autobiographical novel "The Burden of Human Passion" (1915) was included in the list of 100 best English-language works of the XX century, was translated into almost all languages of the world and three times screened. After reading it, Theodore Dreiser called Maugham "a great artist," and the book itself - "a work of genius."
"The Burden of Human Passion" can be called a "novel of education", where the author traces the life of the protagonist Philip Carey from childhood to adolescence, from youth to maturity. On his share falls a lot of trials: the early death of his parents, desperate search for his vocation, doomed relationship with a frivolous woman. Having undergone many disappointments, changing his views from submission to his own passions to self-denial, Philip tries to weave the pattern of his own life thread by thread ...
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