Title Creator Date Era City Country Emotional Sum (Sense of Life or emotional World View) Theme
Of Human Bondage Maugham, W. Somerset 1915 1900 - 1950 United Kingdom Life is a fearful gray spread of actions and in-actions without genuine values. We are all deformed in mind or spirit and should accept convention as demanded by those around us.

Man's life is outside his control. Conventionality is the final ideal.