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The Moon and Sixpence

W. Somerset Maugham

Paperback | Pages: 192 pages

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Original Title:	The Moon and Sixpence
ISBN:	1598185217 (ISBN13: 9781598185218)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Charles Strickland, Dirk Stroeve, Blanche Stroeve
Setting:	London, England(United Kingdom) Paris(France)

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Based on the life of Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence is W. Somerset Maugham's ode to the powerful forces behind creative genius.
Charles Strickland is a staid banker, a man of wealth and privilege. He is also a man possessed of an unquenchable desire to create art. As Strickland pursues his artistic vision, he leaves London for Paris and Tahiti, and in his quest makes sacrifices that leaves the lives of those closest to him in tatters. Through Maugham's sympathetic eye Strickland's tortured and cruel soul becomes a symbol of the blessing and the curse of transcendent artistic genius, and the cost in humans lives it sometimes demands.

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Title	:	The Moon and Sixpence
Author	:	W. Somerset Maugham
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 192 pages
Published	:	August 1st 2005 by Aegypan (first published 1919)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics

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I admire Maughams writing - & I loved The Razors Edge. But I didnt enjoy this book. The extreme misogyny of most of the characters really bothered me - & dont tell me its an accurate depiction of social mores of the time else I shall have to throw some other books from 1919 at you! In this book, Charles Strickland leaves his wife & children after 17 years of a conventional life & passionately pursues his art through starvation & being an utter prick in Paris; then goes to

The Moon and Sixpence (1919) was my first foray into Somerset Maugham, and I dont think Ill be hurrying back. The subject is interesting: a seemingly stolid stockbroker who breaks away from his comfortable life in his forties to become an artist, living on the breadline in Paris (and occasionally rather beneath it), before ending his days in Tahiti. I wasnt put off either by the fact that the protagonist, Charles Strickland, is an unpleasant character, devoid of all human empathy. That can be an

I read this right after I read the Painted Veil. I guess I am on a Somerset Maugham kick. His characters are richly developed and yet hard to know. I imagine that he may find them and humanity that way, though he does his best in bringing you along on his journey of discovery. I am never quite sure what he thinks about women. Sometimes, such as in the Painted Veil, he finds them redeemable and then in other instances trifling and slow-witted. The Moon and Sixpence was the story based upon the

Maugham's fictional biography of an artist whose life is based on that of Paul Gaughin, explores the nature of obsession and the creative urge. The central character, Charles Strickland, is a thoroughly unlikeable man: selfish, lacking in empathy and able to abandon his wife and children without a second thought. And yet, as unsympathetic as Maugham makes Strickland, his compulsive pursuit of beauty is understandable. This is short, powerful and accessible, written in Maugham's beautifully clear

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.In addition to plenty of witty bon mots, Maugham dropped several lengthy quotes on the

I may not be able to tell a post-impressionist painter from a post hole digger, but if I see a painting by Paul Gauguin I can usually identify it correctly.W. Somerset Maughams 1919 novel about fictional artist Charles Strickland is loosely based on the life of the French painter, but lets be honest, even though this is a novel and something of a caricature, it is the slings and arrows of Gauguins outrageous life that make this so damn entertaining.That and Maughams gifted writing and his deft

The Moon and Sixpence, W. Somerset MaughamThe Moon and Sixpence is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham first published in 1919. It is 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 in part based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin.عنوانها: ماه و شش پشیز (پنی) ماه و شش پنی