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The Moon and Sixpence
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A high-paying job as a London stockbroker, a devoted wife and children, an active social life-Strickland seems to have everything he could ever want. When he abruptly decides to pursue an artistic in Paris, Strickland shocks everyone with his passion and resolve to prove his creative talents. The Moon and Sixpence is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham.
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Additional ISBN/GTIN9781513288260
Product TypeE-book
BindingE-book
FormatEPUB
Format noteDRM Adobe
PublisherMint Editions
Publishing date28/05/2021
SeriesMint Editions (In Their Own Words: Biographical and Autobiographical Narratives)
Pages206 pages
LanguageEnglish
File size1134 Kbytes
Article no.10003778
CatalogsVC
Data source no.4301054
Product groupBelletristik
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Born in Paris, he was orphaned as a boy and sent to live with an emotionally distant uncle. He struggled to fit in as a student at The King's School in Canterbury and demanded his uncle send him to Heidelberg University, where he studied philosophy and literature. In Germany, he had his first affair with an older man and embarked on a career as a professional writer. After completing his degree, Maugham moved to London to begin medical school. There, he published Liza of Lambeth (1897), his debut novel. Emboldened by its popular and critical success, he dropped his pursuit of medicine to devote himself entirely to literature. Over his 65-year career, he experimented in form and genre with such works as Lady Frederick (1907), a play, The Magician (1908), an occult novel, and Of Human Bondage (1915). The latter, an autobiographical novel, earned Maugham a reputation as one of the twentieth century's leading authors, and continues to be recognized as his masterpiece. Although married to Syrie Wellcome, Maugham considered himself both bisexual and homosexual at different points in his life. During and after the First World War, he worked for the British Secret Intelligence Service as a spy in Switzerland and Russia, writing of his experiences in Ashenden: Or the British Agent (1927), a novel that would inspire Ian Fleming's James Bond series. At one point the highest-paid author in the world, Maugham led a remarkably eventful life without sacrificing his literary talent.