by William Somerset Maugham · Editorial Hugin e Munin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788494971372
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«A lúa e seis peniques» is the novel by William Somerset Maugham, published by Editorial Hugin e Munin in paperback (328 pages, in Galician).
Charles Strickland, a London stockbroker, abandons his comfortable life to devote himself to painting. The narrator, an aspiring writer, follows the steps of this obsessive and selfish man. Inspired by Paul Gauguin, the novel is a satire of Edwardian mores and an inquiry into artistic vocation.
Volume 63 of the Xeral collection. Translated from English by Alfonso Blanco Quintela. The original work, «The Moon and Sixpence», was published in 1919.
A read for those interested in twentieth-century British literary classics and in the figure of the artist in narrative.
William Somerset Maugham was an English writer, known for his plays, novels and short stories.
