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Narrated by: Alex Squire, The Light

Unabridged — 25 hours, 35 minutes

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Overview

This powerful and deeply personal novel by W. Somerset Maugham follows the life of a sensitive, restless young man shaped by physical limitation, emotional insecurity, and an unrelenting hunger for meaning. From a childhood marked by loss, isolation, and self-doubt, he grows into adulthood burdened by the fear that he is somehow incomplete. His search for purpose leads him through education, art, medicine, and love, yet nothing fully quiets his inner sense of longing and inadequacy.

As he mo...