The Moon and Sixpence - (Penguin Classics) by W Somerset Maugham (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>One of the novels that galvanized W. Somerset Maugham's reputation as a literary master <p/>The Moon and Sixpence</b> follows the life of one Charles Strickland, a bourgeois city gent whose dull exterior conceals the soul of a genius. Compulsive and impassioned, he abandons his home, wife, and children to devote himself slavishly to painting. In a tiny studio in Paris, he fills canvas after canvas, refusing to sell or even exhibit his work. Beset by poverty, sickness, and his own intransigent, unscrupulous nature, he drifts to Tahiti, where, even after being blinded by leprosy, he produces some of his most extraordinary works of art. Inspired by the life of Paul Gauguin, <b>The Moon and Sixpence</b> is an unforgettable study of a man possessed by the need to create--regardless of the cost to himself and to others. <p/>For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"[A] witty, compelling roman à clef...that mock[s] the way the world makes saints of the sinners who are often its best artists." -<i>The Boston Globe</i> <p/>"It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham.... He was always so entirely there." -Gore Vidal<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>W. Somerset Maugham</b> (1874-1965) lived in Paris until he was ten. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University. He afterwards walked the wards of St. Thomas's Hospital with a view to practice in medicine, but the success of his first novel, <b>Liza of Lambeth</b> (1897), won him over to letters. Something of his hospital experience is reflected, however, in the first of his masterpieces, <b>Of Human Bondage</b> (1915), and with <b>The Moon and Sixpence</b> (1919) his reputation as a novelist was assured. <p/>His position as one of the most successful playwrights on the London stage was being consolidated simultaneously. His first play, <b>A Man of Honour</b> (1903), was followed by a procession of successes just before and after the First World War. (At one point only Bernard Shaw had more plays running at the same time in London.) His theatre career ended with <b>Sheppey</b> (1933). His fame as a short-story writer began with <b>The Trembling of a Leaf</b>, sub-titled <b>Little Stories of the South Sea Islands</b>, in 1921, after which he published more than ten collections. <p/>W. Somerset Maugham's general books are fewer in number. They include travel books, such as <b>On a Chinese Screen</b> (1922) and <b>Don Fernando</b> (1935), essays, criticism, and the self-revealing <b>The Summing Up</b> (1938) and <b>A Writer's Notebook</b> (1949). He became a Companion of Honour in 1954. <p/><b>Robert Calder</b> is professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan.</p>
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