Of Human Bondage vs The Financier: Which Should You Read?

Of Human Bondage William Somerset Maugham · 1915 ★★★★☆ 4.2 688 pages · ≈ 12 h 44 m · Challenging

Of Human Bondage is a moving exploration of loneliness, obsessive love, and a young man's search for meaning and direction in life. Written in the third person, it tells the story of Philip Carey, a self-conscious…

The Financier Theodore Dreiser · 1912 ★★★★☆ 4.3 523 pages · ≈ 9 h 41 m · Challenging

“The Philadelphia into which Frank Algernon Cowperwood was born was a city of two hundred and fifty thousand and more.”

The Financier is a novel by Theodore Dreiser, based on real-life streetcar tycoon Charles Yerkes. Dreiser started writing his manuscript in 1911, and the following year published the first part of his lengthy work as…