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The Moon and Sixpence

The Moon and Sixpence

Maugham, W. Somerset

Paperback

Classic FictionGeneral Fiction

ISBN10: 1420951920
ISBN13: 9781420951929
Publisher: Digireads.com
Published: Nov 10 2015
Pages: 158
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.37 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
First published in 1919, W. Somerset Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence is an episodic first person narrative based on the life of Paul Gaugin. At the center of the novel is the story of Charles Strickland, an English banker who walks away from a life of privilege, abruptly abandoning his wife and children, in order to pursue his passion to become an artist. Strickland leaves London for Paris and ultimately Tahiti, mirroring the life of Gaugin who would also split with his wife to pursue a life of painting eventually immigrating to Tahiti. The title of the novel, which is never clearly explained in the novel, comes from a review for Maugham's previous work Of Human Bondage in which that novel's protagonist, Philip Carey, is described as so busy yearning for the moon that he never saw the sixpence at his feet. The moon in this sense might be seen as the lofty ambition to pursue a life of artistic expression in contrast to the sixpence which represents the security of a middle-class life style with wife and children to which the protagonist abandons. The Moon and Sixpence is the story of the demands that can be placed on a tortured artistic soul and consequently the lives that it touches. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

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