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The Moon and Sixpence. Patterned Cover

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The Moon and Sixpence. Patterned Cover
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"The Moon and the Penny" is a novel of the big questions that art has been asking for centuries: what are the limits of loyalty to oneself and one's purpose, what sacrifices can be made on the altar of beauty, where does the true life of an artist begin and end? The story of how English stockbroker Charles Strickland gave up home, family, work and devoted himself to painting is a novel about a grandiose dream and the unity of the sublime and the earthly, about the achievable and unattainable in terms of beauty, about the permissible and impermissible in terms of morality. Finally, this is a novel, sowing an ongoing debate about how much reflected or distorted the figure of the great French artist Paul Gauguin - the prototype of the protagonist.
"Pattern Cover" - full of tragedy love story, unfolding in a small town in China, where a young English bacteriologist and his wife come to fight a cholera epidemic. The book was the basis of the Hollywood movie "The Painted Veil", starring the magnificent Naomi Watts and Edward Norton.
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