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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 Moon and Sixpence is a 1942 film adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's 1919 novel of the same name, which was in part based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin. Dimitri Tiomkin was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture. Two versions were filmed.
The Moon and Sixpence: 1919: Heinemann: Novel [20] The Trembling of a Leaf: Little Stories of the South Sea Islands: 1921: George H. Doran Company, New York Short story collection [21] The Painted Veil: 1925: Heinemann: Novel [22] The Casuarina Tree: Six Stories: 1926: Heinemann: Short story collection; comprises six stories [23] Ashenden: Or ...
The Moon and Sixpence is the story of a man rejecting a conventional lifestyle, family obligations and social responsibility to indulge his ambition to be a painter. [156] The structure of the book is unusual in that the protagonist is already dead before the novel opens, and the narrator attempts to piece together his story, and particularly ...
The Moon and Sixpence was an American television movie broadcast on NBC on October 30, 1959. The production, starring Laurence Olivier , was adapted by S. Lee Pogostin from the novel by Somerset Maugham .
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The former public house, The Moon and Sixpence, was originally known as the Mason's Arms, but changed its name in 1948 following a visit by Somerset Maugham, author of the 1919 novel of the same name. [28] It has been converted into a group of three private houses. [29]
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