by William Somerset Maugham · Random House · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099284765
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«The Moon and Sixpence» is the classic novel by W. Somerset Maugham, published by Random House in paperback (224 pages, in English).
The novel, inspired by the life of Paul Gauguin, tells the story of Charles Strickland, a London stockbroker who abandons his wife and children to devote himself to painting in Paris and Tahiti, and portrays the obsession with art, the nature of genius and the conflict between creative vocation and the social conventions of the Edwardian era.
The Vintage Classics edition includes an introduction and notes. The novel was originally published in 1919.
For readers of English literature classics and stories about artists and creation.
William Somerset Maugham was an English writer, known for his plays, novels and short stories.
