"The Moon And Sixpence" 1922 MAUGHAM, W. Somerset
$250
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset
[314] pp.
Grosset & Dunlap Publishers
1922
Originally published by Doubleday, Doran in 1919, this is the secondary reprint by G&D, circa 1922. (coincides w/ Lincoln last Novels of Distinction entry)
8" x 5 3/4"
The Moon and Sixpence is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham, first published on 15 April 1919. It is told in episodic form by a first-person narrator providing a series of glimpses into the mind and soul of the central character, Charles Strickland, a middle-aged English stockbroker, who abandons his wife and children abruptly to pursue his desire to become an artist. The story is, in part, based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin.