In many ways, the autobiographical novel "The Burden of Human Passions" (1915) was included in the list of the 100 best English-language works of the 20th century, was translated into almost all languages of the world and filmed three times. After reading it, Theodore Dreiser called Maugham a "great artist" and the book itself a "work of genius.""The burden of human passions" can be called a "novel of upbringing", where the author traces the life of the main character Philip Carey from childhood to adolescence, from adolescence to adulthood. He has a lot of trials: the early death of his parents, the desperate search for his vocation, a doomed relationship with a frivolous woman. Having suffered many disappointments, changing his views from submission to his own passions to self-denial, Philip tries to weave the pattern of his own life thread by thread…