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The Moon and Sixpence is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham, first published on 15 April 1919.It is told in episodic form by a first-person narrator providing a series of glimpses into the mind and soul of the central character, Charles Strickland, a middle-aged English stockbroker, who abandons his wife and children abruptly to pursue his desire to become an artist.
[2] [3] The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) [1] and the US edition at $1.75. [3] The book introduces the characters of Tommy and Tuppence who feature in three other Christie novels and one collection of short stories; the five Tommy and Tuppence books span Agatha Christie's writing career. They are hired for a job that ...
A Song of Sixpence is a novel by A. J. Cronin about the coming to manhood of Laurence Carroll and his life in Scotland. [1] It was published in 1964. Its sequel is A Pocketful of Rye. As with several of his other novels, Cronin drew on his own experiences growing up in Scotland for this book.
Sixpence None the Richer (also known as Sixpence) is an American rock band whose name was inspired by a passage from the book Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis. [ 40 ] Penguin Books initially sold books in the 1930s through Woolworths and other high street stores for sixpence.
A Pocket Full of Rye is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 9 November 1953, [1] and in the US by Dodd, Mead & Co. the following year. [2] [3] The UK edition retailed at ten shillings and sixpence (10/6) [1] and the US edition at $2.75. [3] The book features her detective ...
A 2016 revival of Half a Sixpence (an adaptation which took inspiration from, and added to, both H. G. Wells's original novel and the 1963 musical, with the book written by Julian Fellowes and additional music done by George Stiles & Anthony Drewe, with Drewe adding extra lyrics) premiered at the Chichester Festival Theatre, running from the ...
More than 100 letters that never reached the crew of a French warship have been read for the first time since they were sent 265 years ago. Rare ‘treasure box’ of French letters opened and ...
Under Colburn's influence, the published novels adopted a standard format of three volumes in octavo, [note 3] priced at one-and-a-half guineas (£1 11s. 6d.) or ten shillings and sixpence (half a guinea) a volume. [note 4] The price and format remained unaltered for nearly 70 years, until 1894. [8]