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The burden of human passions

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The Burden of Human Passion is a largely autobiographical novel by Somerset Maugham. It has been translated into almost every language of the world and three times screened, and was included in the list of the 100 best English-language works of the XX century. After reading this novel, Theodore Dreiser called Maugham "a great artist," and his book - "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. To his share falls a lot of trials: the early death of his parents, desperate search for his vocation in the world, doomed relationship with a frivolous woman. Having suffered 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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