His later novels were based on historical people: The Moon and Sixpence fictionalizes the life of Paul Gauguin ; and Cakes and Ale contains thinly veiled characterizations of the authors Thomas Hardy and Hugh Walpole.

* The Moon and Sixpence ( 1942 ) with George Sanders.

Gauguin's life inspired W. Somerset Maugham's novel The Moon and Sixpence.

Parks has produced, arranged, or played on albums by artists including Tim Buckley, Phil Ochs, Delaney Bramlett, Vic Chesnutt, U2, Randy Newman, Harry Nilsson, The Byrds, Cher, Rufus Wainwright, Sam Phillips, Ringo Starr, Frank Black, The Beau Brummels, The Manhattan Transfer, Medicine, Keith Moon, Sixpence None the Richer, Carly Simon, Little Feat, T-Bone Burnett, Stan Ridgway, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Victoria Williams, Bonnie Raitt, Peter Case, Gordon Lightfoot, Fiona Apple, Sheryl Crow, Ry Cooder, Joanna Newsom, The Everly Brothers, Saint Etienne, Silverchair, The Thrills, Scissor Sisters, Laurie Anderson, and Susanna Hoffs / Matthew Sweet's covers collection.

* " We've Got The Moon And Sixpence " Oscar Levant, Clifford Grey

* The Moon and Sixpence ( 1919 ) by William Somerset Maugham follows the life of Paul Gauguin, especially his time in Tahiti.

* W. Somerset Maugham — The Moon and Sixpence

* The Moon and Sixpence ( TV, 1959 )

The Moon and Sixpence is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham, told in episodic form by the first-person narrator as 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.

The novel served as the basis for an opera, also titled The Moon and Sixpence, by John Gardner to a libretto by Patrick Terry ; it was premiered at Covent Garden in 1958.

That book is The Moon and Sixpence.

The Moon and Sixpence is the name of a popular Irish pub in Portland, Oregon.

* The Moon and Sixpence ( film ) at the Internet Movie Database

* The Moon and Sixpence ( audio ) at LibriVox

Somerset Maugham referred to this problem in his 1919 novel The Moon and Sixpence, where he admitted:

The public house, The Moon and Sixpence, was originally known as the Mason's Arms, but changed its name in 1948 following a visit by Somerset Maugham, author of the 1919 novel of the same name.

* The Moon and Sixpence ( 1942 )

* The Moon and Sixpence ( 1942 )

In May 1957 Sadler's Wells put on the opera The Moon and Sixpence, which they had commissioned, and two other major works were premiered that year, the Piano Concerto No. 1 ( Cyril Preedy and Barbirolli at the Cheltenham Festival ) and the Seven Songs, Op.

During the 1950s and 1960s, Marsh made many appearances on British and American television including an episode of The Twilight Zone called " The Lonely " ( 1959 ), in which she played Alicia, a very lifelike and attractive female robot ; The Moon and Sixpence ( 1959 ) opposite Laurence Olivier and Denholm Elliot ; The Wonderful World of Disney ( 1961 ); Gideon's Way ( 1965 ); I Spy ( 1967 ); The Saint ( 4 episodes between 1964 and 1968 ); and UFO.

In 1959 he won an Emmy Award for directing The Moon and Sixpence, a made-for-television production that marked the American small-screen debut of Laurence Olivier.

* The Moon and Sixpence ( 1942 ) ( uncredited ) as Mrs. Any Strickland

* Moon And Sixpence, Nisha Susan on the shambling creativity of Sudhir Mishra

Kill Rock Stars is an independent record label founded in 1991 by Slim Moon and based in both Olympia, Washington and Portland, Oregon.

The program's regular reporters include: Bob Moon, Senior Business Correspondent ; Stephen Beard, London Bureau Chief ; Heidi Moore, New York Bureau Chief, John Dimsdale, Washington Bureau Chief ; Nancy Marshall-Genzer, Senior Washington Reporter ; David Gura, Washington Reporter ; Amy Scott, Education Correspondent in Baltimore ; Rob Schmitz, Shanghai Correspondent ; Scott Tong, Sustainability Reporter ; Jeff Tyler, Adriene Hill and Eve Troeh, in Los Angeles ; Stacey Vanek-Smith in New York ; Queena Kim in Silicon Valley ; Health Correspondent, Gregory Warner in Philadelphia ; and Mitchell Hartman, Entrepreneurship Reporter, in Portland, OR.

Stregheria honors a pantheon centered around a Moon Goddess and a Horned God regarded as central, paralleling Wiccan views of divinity.

* Dark Star, a 1929 novel by Lorna Moon

In early 1989 Fellini began production on The Voice of the Moon, based on Ermanno Cavazzoni ’ s novel, Il poema dei lunatici ( The Lunatics ’ Poem ).

* Joshua is a main protagonist in Matthew Woodring Stover's novel Jericho Moon.

This has been thought to make it suitable for human – computer communication, which led Robert A. Heinlein to mention the language in his science fiction novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress ( 1966 ), and as a fully-fledged computer language in The Number of the Beast ( 1980 ).

The novel takes place in the " North American Confederation " of 1992, wherein technology has advanced to the extent of permitting civilians to reach the Moon and psi phenomena are common.

Author Tracy Barrett wrote a novel titled Dark of the Moon, published in 2011, which is a re-write of the Theseus Myth.

* The Doctor Who novel Imperial Moon takes place in this year.

* In Robert A. Heinlein's 1966 novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, computer technician Manuel Davis blames a real bug for a ( non-existent ) failure of supercomputer Mike, presenting a dead fly as evidence.

" London was later to depict Sterling as Russ Brissenden in his autobiographical novel Martin Eden ( 1910 ) and as Mark Hall in The Valley of the Moon ( 1913 ).

Rocket Ship Galileo is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, published in 1947, about three teenagers who participate in a pioneering flight to the Moon.

His name can be seen as an homage both to Rand's hero and to Robert Heinlein's character Mike in the novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, a self-aware computer network that engineers a revolution in a lunar penal colony using the alias Adam Selene.

* In Robert A. Heinlein's novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, the Lunar Declaration of Independence is sent to Earth on July 4, 2076 ; much of the book takes place in 2076.

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is a 1966 science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, about a lunar colony's revolt against rule from Earth.

While the opposition between Earth and Moon echoes the historical conflict between the United States and the British Empire, the way the Lunar rebels force Earth to acknowledge their independence is similar to the one they adopt in Dick's novel ( launching missiles, some with nuclear warheads, in an unpredictable fashion ).

The novel is linked to Heinlein's short story, " They ", by the term, " the Glaroon ", and to his earlier novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by referring to the Moon colonies " Luna City " and " Tycho Under ".

Requiem is a short story by Robert A. Heinlein, serving as a sequel to his short science fiction novel, The Man Who Sold the Moon, although it was in fact published several years earlier than that story, in Astounding, January 1940.

Although the science fiction film Destination Moon is generally described as being based on Heinlein's novel Rocket Ship Galileo, the story in fact bears a much closer resemblance to The Man Who Sold the Moon, whose copyright date shows that it was written in 1949, although it wasn't published until 1951, the year after Destination Moon came out.

A variation on the traditional impact story was provided by Jack McDevitt's 1999 novel Moonfall, in which a very large comet traveling at interstellar velocities collides with and partially destroys the Moon, fragments of which then collide with the Earth.

Upon publication, the novel met with critical praise, and was soon followed by a sequel, The Moon of Gomrath, published in 1963.