The Moon and Sixpence (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: W. Somerset Maugham
- First Published: 1919
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Biographical
- Time of Work: c. 1897-1917
- Genres: Long fiction, Biographical fiction
- Subjects: France or French people, Nineteenth century, England or English people, Adultery, Creative process, Ethics, Painting or painters, Leprosy, South Pacific, Pacific Ocean
- Locales: Paris, France, London, England, Marseilles, France, Tahiti
Places Discussed
*London. Capital of Great Britain in which the novel opens with several chapters satirizing the city’s domestic and literary worlds. Except for chance encounters in the streets, all the novel’s scenes are set in middle-class living rooms. Maugham’s London is a completely known world, in which original vision is impossible because everyone knows how they are supposed to behave, and, for the most part, do. Even the threats of the world—dullness, sarcastic insults, infidelity—are known, and may be dealt with. When Charles Strickland decides that he wants...
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