“Of Human Bondage” by W. Somerset Maugham is one of the most emotionally powerful and heartbreaking books I’ve ever read

"It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories." So ends the journey of Phillip Carey, the tortured, haunted, often pitiful, often frustrating protagonist of William Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage. And it's a hell of an emotional wringer of a journey, following [...]