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The Moon and Sixpence is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham, first published on 15 April 1919.
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.
Drama. A staid, dull Englishman abruptly deserts his wife and children to become a painter in the South Seas. Director. Robert Mulligan. Writers. W. Somerset Maugham. S. Lee Pogostin. Stars. Laurence Olivier.
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- Robert Mulligan
- 1959-10-30
The Razor's Edge, the author's last major novel, is described by Sutherland as "Maugham's twentieth-century manifesto for human fulfilment", satirising Western materialism and drawing on Eastern spiritualism as a way to find meaning in existence.
Jul 22, 2010 · By Selina Hastings. July 22, 2010. Chapter 1: A Blackstable Boyhood. For much of his long life — he lived to be over ninety — Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) was the most famous writer in the...
Loosely inspired by Paul Gauguin's life, this is the story of Charles Strickland, a stock broker who, to follow his dream of becoming a painter, leaves his life behind and he becomes an awful human being, wholly devoted to his ideal: beauty. By W. Somerset Maugham.
The Moon and Sixpence — A staid, dull Englishman abruptly abandons his middle-class life, his family, and his duties to become a painter in the South Seas. Loosely inspired by Paul Gauguin's life, this is the story of Charles Strickland, a stock broker who, to follow his dream of becoming a painter, leaves his life behind and he becomes an awful human being, wholly devoted to his ideal ...
