Somerset Maugham called it the book that saved his life. He also said it was the worst kind of novel — an autobiographical one. He was right on both counts, which is precisely why it endures. By Bergotte There is a type of novel that functions less like a work of art than like aContinue reading “The Education of Helplessness: Of Human Bondage and the Novel That Refused to Lie”
My World of Interiors 