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10 books for a good cry

Author Hallie Ephron recommends the best literary tear-jerkers.

7. ‘Of Human Bondage,’ by W. Somerset Maugham

Maugham creates a loveable protagonist in the orphaned Philip, whose journey from childhood to manhood includes various manifestations of the bondage that the novel’s title refers to. Growing up with a clubbed foot, Philip suffers from feelings of inferiority. As a young man, he is brought to destitution by his inability to relinquish his unrequited love for a Parisian waitress.  Maugham’s  saga of personal development is at times tragic, at others triumphant. 

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