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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.
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.
Syd Sixpence is a 1982 children's book by Australian author Joan Lindsay, [1] featuring illustrations by Rick Amor. Its plot follows an anthropomorphic sixpence coin who is thrown into the ocean, and his subsequent adventures on the ocean floor. It was Lindsay's last published work before her death in 1984, and her only work of children's ...
In 1996, Penguin Books published as a paperback A Complete Annotated Listing of Penguin Classics and Twentieth-Century Classics (ISBN 0-14-771090-1). This article covers editions in the series: black label (1970s), colour-coded spines (1980s), the most recent editions (2000s), and Little Clothbound Classics Series (2020s).
Waverley, or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since: 1814: Perthshire (Scotland) 1745–1746 Guy Mannering, or, The Astrologer: 1815: Galloway (Scotland) 1760-5, 1781–2 The Antiquary: 1816: North-East Scotland: 1794 Tales of My Landlord, 1st series: The Black Dwarf: 1816: Scottish Borders: 1707 The Tale of Old Mortality: 1816: Southern Scotland: 1679–89 ...
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 ...
The sequel, A Wind in the Door, takes place the following year but was published over a decade later, in 1973. A Swiftly Tilting Planet, set ten years after A Wrinkle in Time, followed in 1978. The fourth title of the quintet, Many Waters, was published in 1986, but takes place several years before A Swiftly Tilting Planet.