The Moon and Sixpence new-arrivals-090523 Visible and/or invisible

Visible and/or invisible

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Slaughter is here with her eagerly anticipated take on the problems we still face

as never before

He was just about to step out on to the floor when he caught a sudden thin ray of red from under the drooping lid of Smaug's left eye

The Moon and Sixpence new-arrivals-090523 Visible and/or invisibleOne of the novels that galvanized W. Somerset Maughams reputation as a literary masterThe 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,