Of Human Bondage
It is generally agreed to be his masterpiece and to be strongly autobiographical in nature , although Maugham stated , "This is a novel , not an autobiography; though much in it is autobiographical , more is pure invention . " Maugham , who had originally planned to call his novel "Beauty from Ashes" , finally settled on a title taken from a section of Spinoza's "Ethics" . 
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