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Based on the life of Paul Gaugin, THE MOON AND SIXPENCE chronicles the life of Charles Strickland, a middle-class stockbroker who flees from his London life and family, first ...Read more
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an interesting read for Maugham fans
Far from Maugham’s best work, but still a worthwhile read for Maugham’s fans. Inspired by the life of Paul Gauguin, this book follows Charles Strickland, a middle aged stockbr...Read more
The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham (1977, Paperback, Reprint)
Author: W. Somerset MaughamPublisher: Penguin Group USALanguage: English
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Based on the life of Paul Gaugin, THE MOON AND SIXPENCE chronicles the life of Charles Strickland, a middle-class stockbroker who flees from his London life and family, first to Paris and then to a distant Pacific island. The narrator of the story, a writer, tracks down Strickland as a favor to his wife, a society woman known for her interest in art until her husband deserts her.
Publisher's Note
On a trip to research French artist Paul Gauguin, Maugham sailed into Tahiti's Papeet harbor, where he imagined an exotic tale of the ultimate outsider, one who rejects his entire way of life to pursue an obsession. The result of his efforts is a story of rebellion and escape from civilization which continues to attract and captivate readers to this day. Introduction by Perry Meisel.
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"When one closes the book and looks back over the varied scenes, civilized and barbaric, one has a memory of powerful and inevitable movement and the light and shadow of life itself."
Dial - Maxwell Anderson (11/29/1919)
"Among the practitioners of the new fiction, Maugham is preeminent for controlled power, steady vision and noble lucidity of mind. His acceptance of reality is quite free of the morbid revulsion embedded in the works of the French naturalists and their disciples; it is stern and humble and serene at once....Mr. Maugham's purely intellectual virtues, and they are perhaps his highest, appear more nakedly and at least as trenchantly in his new book."
Nation (08/16/1919)
"Though it is Strickland who dominates the book and Strickland is a man unlike and apart from ordinary humanity, the novel produces a remarkable effect of reality, an effect due in great measure to the admirable drawing of the minor characters....Mr. Maugham has a way of getting beneath the surface and bringing to light what he finds there, putting forth his discoveries in a style which though clever is never permitted to become merely smart."
New York Times (08/03/1919)
Based on the life of Paul Gaugin, THE MOON AND SIXPENCE chronicles the life of Charles Strickland, a middle-class stockbroker who flees from his London life and family, first to Paris and then to a distant Pacific island. The narrator of the story, a writer, tracks down Strickland as a favor to his wife, a society woman known for her interest in art until her husband deserts her.
| Key Details | |
| Author: | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Penguin Group USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| ISBN-10: | 0140185976 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780140185973 |
| Additional Details | |
| Edition Description: | Reprint |
| Size | |
| Height: | 7.8 in |
| Width: | 5 in |
| Thickness: | 0.5 in |
| Weight: | 5.6 oz |
Publisher's Note
On a trip to research French artist Paul Gauguin, Maugham sailed into Tahiti's Papeet harbor, where he imagined an exotic tale of the ultimate outsider, one who rejects his entire way of life to pursue an obsession. The result of his efforts is a story of rebellion and escape from civilization which continues to attract and captivate readers to this day. Introduction by Perry Meisel.
Industry Reviews
Dial - Maxwell Anderson (11/29/1919)
Nation (08/16/1919)
New York Times (08/03/1919)
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an interesting read for Maugham fans
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Far from Maugham’s best work, but still a worthwhile read for Maugham’s fans. Inspired by the life of Paul Gauguin, this book follows Charles Strickland, a middle aged stockbroker who abruptly abandons his comfortable life to become a starving, unrecognized artist before dying of leprosy (although his works do attain “masterpiece” status eventually). As horrible as his new circumstances are, Strickland pays no mind to them and is content with his new life.
Maugham has been one of my favorite writers since reading "Of Human Bondage," and this novel offers more of his straightforward, thoughtful writing with regard to describing the life and experiences of a man who realizes he doesn't quite fit in with the world and strives to make his life meaningful to himself, if not to others.
Maugham has been one of my favorite writers since reading "Of Human Bondage," and this novel offers more of his straightforward, thoughtful writing with regard to describing the life and experiences of a man who realizes he doesn't quite fit in with the world and strives to make his life meaningful to himself, if not to others.
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