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“Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is notgiven to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.” ― W. Somerset Maugham, THE MOON AND SIXPENCE
ABOUT THE MOON AND SIXPENCE
One of the novels that galvanized W. Somerset Maugham’s reputation as a literary master
The Moon and Sixpence follows the life of one Charles Strickland, a bourgeois city gent whose dull exterior conceals the soul of a genius. Compulsive and impassioned, he abandons his home, wife, and children to devote himself slavishly to painting. In a tiny studio in Paris, he fills canvas after canvas, refusing to sell or even exhibit his work. Beset by poverty, sickness, and his own intransigent, unscrupulous nature, he drifts to Tahiti, where, even after being blinded by leprosy, he produces some of his most extraordinary works of art. Inspired by the life of Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence is an unforgettable study of a man possessed by the need to create—regardless of the cost to himself and to others.
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Want to stop time and make your summer last longer? Settling into a summer read will help, and Quantrell Award winner Stuart Gazes recommends "Einstein's Dreams":台灣有童元方譯本
“I once read 'Einstein’s Dreams' by Alan Lightman. He’s a physicist and a writer at MIT, and in 'Einstein’s Dreams,' in a few pages, little vignettes, he describes a world in which some law of physics behaves very differently than it does in our universe. What was impressive was the conceit was based on physics, but the writing was beautiful. There was an elegance and beauty with how he was thinking about physics in a way that I had never read before.” —Stuart Gazes, Senior Lecturer in Physics
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