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

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

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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. 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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Publisher
Mint Editions
Year
2021
ISBN
9781513288260
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literature General
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. I
  6. II
  7. III
  8. IV
  9. V
  10. VI
  11. VII
  12. VIII
  13. IX
  14. X
  15. XI
  16. XII
  17. XIII
  18. XIV
  19. XV
  20. XVI
  21. XVII
  22. XVIII
  23. XIX
  24. XX
  25. XXI
  26. XXII
  27. XXIII
  28. XXIV
  29. XXV
  30. XXVI
  31. XXVII
  32. XXVIII
  33. XXIX
  34. XXX
  35. XXXI
  36. XXXII
  37. XXXIII
  38. XXXIV
  39. XXXV
  40. XXXVI
  41. XXXVII
  42. XXXVIII
  43. XXXIX
  44. XL
  45. XLI
  46. XLII
  47. XLIII
  48. XLIV
  49. XLV
  50. XLVI
  51. XLVII
  52. XLVIII
  53. XLIX
  54. L
  55. LI
  56. LII
  57. LIII
  58. LIV
  59. LV
  60. LVI
  61. LVII
  62. LVIII
  63. A Note About the Author
  64. A Note from the Publisher