The Moon And Sixpence
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What drives a man to abandon everything — wealth, family, and respectability — in pursuit of an obsession he cannot name? The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham chronicles the fictional life of Charles Strickland, a stolid London stockbroker who, at middle age, shocks his social circle by deserting his comfortable existence to become a painter in Paris, eventually finding his ultimate canvas under the blazing sun of Tahiti. Narrated with cool, ironic detachment by an unnamed writer, the novel presents a searing portrait of artistic genius in collision with bourgeois morality, drawing heavily from the real life of Post-Impressionist master Paul Gauguin. Maugham constructs his narrative with the precision of a master craftsman, dissecting the tension between the soul's hunger for beauty and the world's demand for conformity, all while maintaining a tone that is simultaneously sardonic and deeply sympathetic. A devastating meditation on sacrifice, obsession, and the true cost of artistic vision, the novel leaves one final, haunting question unanswered: was Strickland's transcendence worth the trail of ruined lives left in his wake?
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What drives a man to abandon everything — wealth, family, and respectability — in pursuit of an obsession he cannot name? The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham chronicles the fictional life of Charles Strickland, a stolid London stockbroker who, at middle age, shocks his social circle by deserting his comfortable existence to become a painter in Paris, eventually finding his ultimate canvas under the blazing sun of Tahiti. Narrated with cool, ironic detachment by an unnamed writer, the novel presents a searing portrait of artistic genius in collision with bourgeois morality, drawing heavily from the real life of Post-Impressionist master Paul Gauguin. Maugham constructs his narrative with the precision of a master craftsman, dissecting the tension between the soul's hunger for beauty and the world's demand for conformity, all while maintaining a tone that is simultaneously sardonic and deeply sympathetic. A devastating meditation on sacrifice, obsession, and the true cost of artistic vision, the novel leaves one final, haunting question unanswered: was Strickland's transcendence worth the trail of ruined lives left in his wake?