The Moon And Sixpence
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What drives a man to abandon everything — his career, his family, his comfortable life — in pursuit of an obsession he cannot name? The Moon and Sixpence chronicles the ruthless transformation of Charles Strickland, a stolid London stockbroker who, in middle age, abandons his wife and children to become a painter in Paris, ultimately dying in isolation on the island of Tahiti. Narrated by a wry, detached writer who pieces together the legend of Strickland years after his death, the novel is a brilliant fictional reimagining of the life of Post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin, rendered with Maugham's characteristically cool, ironic intelligence. Beneath its surface as an artist's biography, the novel presents a profound and unsettling meditation on genius, morality, and the brutal cost of artistic ambition. Maugham argues, with quiet ferocity, that true creative genius is fundamentally amoral — indifferent to the conventions of society and the feelings of those it destroys. His prose is elegant, economical, and shot through with a sardonic wit that makes even its most troubling ideas compulsively readable. A century after its first publication, The Moon and Sixpence remains a haunting and deeply provocative question: is the pursuit of beauty ever worth the wreckage it leaves behind?
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What drives a man to abandon everything — his career, his family, his comfortable life — in pursuit of an obsession he cannot name? The Moon and Sixpence chronicles the ruthless transformation of Charles Strickland, a stolid London stockbroker who, in middle age, abandons his wife and children to become a painter in Paris, ultimately dying in isolation on the island of Tahiti. Narrated by a wry, detached writer who pieces together the legend of Strickland years after his death, the novel is a brilliant fictional reimagining of the life of Post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin, rendered with Maugham's characteristically cool, ironic intelligence. Beneath its surface as an artist's biography, the novel presents a profound and unsettling meditation on genius, morality, and the brutal cost of artistic ambition. Maugham argues, with quiet ferocity, that true creative genius is fundamentally amoral — indifferent to the conventions of society and the feelings of those it destroys. His prose is elegant, economical, and shot through with a sardonic wit that makes even its most troubling ideas compulsively readable. A century after its first publication, The Moon and Sixpence remains a haunting and deeply provocative question: is the pursuit of beauty ever worth the wreckage it leaves behind?