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About the product «Burden of Human Passions» is in many ways an autobiographical novel by Somerset Maugham. It was translated into almost all languages of the world and filmed three times, and also entered the list of the 100 best English-language works of the 20th century. After reading this novel, Theodore Dreiser called Maugham a «great artist» and his book a «creation of a genius.» «The Burden of Human Passions» can be called a «novel of education», where the author traces the life of the protagonist Philip Carey from childhood to adolescence, from adolescence to maturity. Many trials fall to his lot: the early death of his parents, the desperate search for his calling in the world, doomed relationships with a frivolous woman. Having endured 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 after thread …
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