The burden of human passions

In many ways, the autobiographical novel “The Ben of the Passions of Human” (1915) was included in the list of 100 best English -speaking works of the 20th century, was translated almost to all languages ​​of the world and three times filmed. After reading it, Theodore Dreizer called Maugham the “great artist”, and the book itself is “the creation of a genius.”
“The burden of human passions” can be called the “Roman of Education”, where the author traces the life of the main character Philip Carey from childhood to adolescence, From youth to maturity. A lot of tests falls on his lot: the early death of parents, the desperate search for their calling, the doomed relationship with the frivolous woman. Having suffered a lot of disappointments, changing his views from submission to his own passions to self -denial, Philip tries to weave a thread of weave a pattern of his own life