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The Moon and Sixpence: (Large Print) (Large Print Edition)

The Moon and Sixpence: (Large Print) (Large Print Edition)

Maugham, W. Somerset
Gahan F. I. E., John

Paperback

Classic FictionGeneral FictionHistorical Fiction

ISBN10: 1511683589
ISBN13: 9781511683586
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Apr 12 2015
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.35 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.02
Language: English
The Moon and Sixpence is a novel by W Somerset Maugham, told in episodic form by a first-person narrator, in a series of glimpses into the mind and soul of the central character Charles Strickland, a middle-aged English stockbroker, who abandons his wife and children abruptly to pursue his desire to become an artist. The story is said to be loosely based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin. The inspiration for this story, Gauguin, is considered to be the founder of primitivism in art. The main differences between Gauguin and Strickland are that Gauguin was French rather than English, and whilst Maugham describes the character of Strickland as being largely ignorant of his contemporaries in Modern art, as well as largely ignorant of other artists in general, Gauguin himself was well acquainted with and exhibited with the Impressionists in the 1880s and lived for a while with Van Gogh in southern France.

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