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The Moon and Sixpence

The Moon and Sixpence

Maugham, W. Somerset
Editions, Mint

Hardcover

Series: Mint Editions (in Their Own Words: Biographical and Autobiographical Narratives)

General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $20.99

ISBN10: 1513135732
ISBN13: 9781513135731
Publisher: Mint Editions
Published: Feb 15 2022
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

The Moon and Sixpence (1919) is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. Inspired by the life of French painter Paul Gauguin, Maugham set out to capture the disconnect between an artist's desire to create and their obligations to their loved ones and society. Praised for its multifaceted portrayal of tortured genius and wasted talent, The Moon and Sixpence explores the distance between expectation and desire in a man whose decisions, however, hastily made, are done with the loftiest of intentions. Some people live their whole lives without daring to dream, going from moment to moment in a haze of dreary reality, following expectation from birth to grave. Strickland seems to be one of these people-singularly dedicated to his work as a London stockbroker, uninterested in the arts, married as though through obligation alone. One day, he unexpectedly leaves his wife and children to pursue a career as a painter in Paris, completely and irrevocably severing himself from the professional and familial ties he sent his whole life building. Somehow, he proves incredibly adept, but each brilliant work of art is made at the expense of those he leaves behind. The Moon and Sixpence is a tale of creativity, disappointment, and struggle by a master stylist with a keen sense of the complications inherent to human nature. This edition of W. Somerset Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence is a classic work of British literature reimagined for modern readers.

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