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Title: The Moon and Sixpence
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
Narrator: Frederick Davidson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-14-05
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 47 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Charles Strickland, the central character, is a stock broker in London. One day, at the age of 40, he leaves his business, his wife, and their children and goes to Paris. He has neither money nor prospects. He knows almost nothing of art. But he is seized with a passion to paint, and for the rest of his life nothing else matters to him. He gives up everything to which he has been accustomed for extreme poverty, social ostracism, and the freedom to paint. When he finally dies of leprosy in Tahiti, where he had gone native, the few paintings that turn up for sale bring only six to 10 francs apiece. But he has achieved his desire to create beauty and, with the years, the world fully recognizes his blazing genius.
Members Reviews:
great, simply great
This didn't make any sense to me at first...just seemed like a lot of rambling. Things started to pick up and come together around the 4th chapter and then they got great, really great.
This is a story about a writer writing a story about an artist. The characters are terrific and the plot unexpected. Although the book is relatively short, I felt nothing was left out. It was concise and complex, and I was fully engaged to the end.
The narrator did an absolutely superb job. He's one of the best I've heard.
Fascinating, discomforting, and worthwhile
The first few chapters might get you worried, rest assured after this extended idle this novel gets going. The novel is an exploration of character and philosophy, which may not be everyones cup of tea, but I really enjoyed it. The story examines the depth of the veneer of society and the utility of endeavor, even for art, at the expense of all else.
chef d'oeuvre
complexity of life and art and love is written with so much intelligence and humour, that even with my difficult english (I'm french), I appreciate this book as one of the best book I ever read, near Dostoievski or Garcia Marquez.
a great reading by a great reader
excellent.
I've heard better
On the basis of Maugham Trembling Leaf which I HIGHLY recommend, I tried this by the same narrator Davidson, one of my absolute favorites. But this story is a nonstop sequence of cliches with unbearably protracted monologues by the rather shallow and empty character of the storyteller of a pithy pseudophilosophical nature. The characters are hackneyed and utterly predictable. Davidson (the narrator) is great with great novels but his attempts at accents and an inferior text make it seem sillier than it already is.
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Title: The Moon and Sixpence
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
Narrator: Frederick Davidson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-14-05
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 47 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Charles Strickland, the central character, is a stock broker in London. One day, at the age of 40, he leaves his business, his wife, and their children and goes to Paris. He has neither money nor prospects. He knows almost nothing of art. But he is seized with a passion to paint, and for the rest of his life nothing else matters to him. He gives up everything to which he has been accustomed for extreme poverty, social ostracism, and the freedom to paint. When he finally dies of leprosy in Tahiti, where he had gone native, the few paintings that turn up for sale bring only six to 10 francs apiece. But he has achieved his desire to create beauty and, with the years, the world fully recognizes his blazing genius.
Members Reviews:
great, simply great
This didn't make any sense to me at first...just seemed like a lot of rambling. Things started to pick up and come together around the 4th chapter and then they got great, really great.
This is a story about a writer writing a story about an artist. The characters are terrific and the plot unexpected. Although the book is relatively short, I felt nothing was left out. It was concise and complex, and I was fully engaged to the end.
The narrator did an absolutely superb job. He's one of the best I've heard.
Fascinating, discomforting, and worthwhile
The first few chapters might get you worried, rest assured after this extended idle this novel gets going. The novel is an exploration of character and philosophy, which may not be everyones cup of tea, but I really enjoyed it. The story examines the depth of the veneer of society and the utility of endeavor, even for art, at the expense of all else.
chef d'oeuvre
complexity of life and art and love is written with so much intelligence and humour, that even with my difficult english (I'm french), I appreciate this book as one of the best book I ever read, near Dostoievski or Garcia Marquez.
a great reading by a great reader
excellent.
I've heard better
On the basis of Maugham Trembling Leaf which I HIGHLY recommend, I tried this by the same narrator Davidson, one of my absolute favorites. But this story is a nonstop sequence of cliches with unbearably protracted monologues by the rather shallow and empty character of the storyteller of a pithy pseudophilosophical nature. The characters are hackneyed and utterly predictable. Davidson (the narrator) is great with great novels but his attempts at accents and an inferior text make it seem sillier than it already is.