MAUGHAM, W. Somerset.
The Moon and Sixpence.
The Heritage Press Edition of W. Somerset Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence
New York: The Heritage Press, 1941.
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The Heritage Press illustrated edition of this classic novel. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, floral stamped detailing to the front panel, top stain brown, pictorial endpapers, frontispiece self-portrait of Paul Gauguin, with black and white illustrations and decorations. In fine condition. Illustrated by Frederic Dorr Steele and Paul Gauguin. Housed in the original slipcase.
American novelist and playwright William Somerset Maugham was among the most popular writers of his era and, by the time of his death in 1965, was one of the most commercially successful writers of the twentieth century. The Moon and Sixpence (1919), one of his most enduring novels, fictionalizes the life of French artist Paul Gauguin through the character of Charles Strickland, an ordinary London stockbroker who abandons his bourgeois life to pursue a radical artistic vision. The novel explores themes of obsession, creativity, and the cost of artistic genius, often highlighting the tension between societal expectations and individual purpose.
The Moon and Sixpence.
$75.00
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