The Moon and Sixpence - Couverture souple

Maugham, W Somerset

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798886890181

Editeur : Bamboo & Pine Press, 2025

Synopsis

The Moon and Sixpence is a novel by Somerset Maugham, first published on 15 April 1919. It is told in episodic form by a first-person narrator providing 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.

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À propos des auteurs

William Somerset Maugham (25 January 1874 - 16 December 1965) was an English writer, known for his plays, novels and short stories.Born in Paris, where he spent his first ten years, Maugham was schooled in England and went to a German university. He became a medical student in London and qualified as a physician in 1897. He never practiced medicine, and became a full-time writer.His first novel, Liza of Lambeth (1897), a study of life in the slums, attracted attention, but it was as a playwright that he first achieved national celebrity. Maugham's novels after Liza of Lambeth include Of Human Bondage (1915), The Moon and Sixpence (1919), The Painted Veil (1925), Cakes and Ale (1930) and The Razor's Edge (1944). His short stories were published in collections such as The Casuarina Tree (1926) and The Mixture as Before (1940); many of them have been adapted for radio, cinema and television. His great popularity and prodigious sales provoked adverse reactions from highbrow critics, many of whom sought to belittle him as merely competent.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bamboo & Pine Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798886890181
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 252
• Éditeur: Zhu Julie
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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