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"The Burden of Human Passions" is largely an autobiographical novel by Somerset Maugham. It has been translated into almost all languages of the world and filmed three times, as well as included in 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 genius."
"The burden of human passions" can be called "the novel of upbringing", where the author traces the life of the main character Philip Carey from childhood to adolescence, from adolescence to maturity.
He falls a lot of tests: the early death of his parents, the desperate search for his calling in the world, the doomed relationship with a frivolous woman. Having endured many disappointments, changing their views, from subordination to their own passions to self-denial, Philip tries to thread by thread to weave the pattern of his own life ...