The Moon and Sixpence [VINTAGE 1941]

Maugham, W. Somerset

Verlag: Triangle Books, New York, 1941

Beschreibung

Fine condition cinnamon cloth boards with a black front cover decoration and black spine lettering, contained in a very good condition color illustrated dust jacket. Chipping wear mostly at the upper jacket spine edge and rubbing at the left side of the lower front cover. (see photographs). All three page edges are dyed dark red. All pages are lightly browned at the edges and otherwise in unmarked fine condition and the spine is tight and square. Second Triangle Books Printing as per the following on the copyright page: "Triangle Books Edition Published March 1941, Reprinted April 1941." "This is the story of an artist who was willing to sacrifice everything for the sake of art. In much of its general outline, this famous novel follows the life of Paul Gauguin, famous French post-impressionist painter, but it is not a novelized biography of Gauguin. Rather it is a sharply delineated, carefully wrought "private life", written by one of the most vivid and penetrating contemporary literary masters. Charles Strickland, the central character, was a stock broker in London. One day, at the age of forty, he left his business, his wife and their children and went to Paris. He had neither money nor prospects. He knew almost nothing of art. But he was seized with a passion to paint and for the rest of his life nothing else mattered to him. He gave up everything to which he had been accustomed for extreme poverty, social ostracism and the freedom to paint. When he finally died of leprosy in Tahiti, where he had gone native, the few paintings which turned up for sale brought only six to ten francs apiece. But he had achieved his desire to create beauty and, with the years, the world fully recognized his blazing genius." - from the inner front jacket flap. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 003821

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Moon and Sixpence [VINTAGE 1941]

Verlag: Triangle Books, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1941

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good