Bertha Ley, an impulsive young woman of good family, defies her guardian and her neighbours to marry Edward Craddock, a cheerful, solid farmer far beneath her socially. Maugham follows the marriage through years of disappointed passion, as her intensity meets his complacent good nature and the Kentish county gossips look on.
An early Maugham novel of 1902 that already shows the cool, unsparing eye of Of Human Bondage. Download the free EPUB.