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The Moon and Sixpence (Paperback)
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The Moon and Sixpence (Paperback)
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List price R312
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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. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally
typeset manuscript, 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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