The Moon and Sixpence
Categories: Literature & Fiction
The Moon and Sixpence is a 1919 novel by W. Somerset Maugham, loosely inspired by the life of the French painter Paul Gauguin. It is told by a young writer who knew the painter. Charles Strickland, a respectable London stockbroker in his forties, abruptly leaves his wife and children to become a painter in Paris. Cruel and indifferent to everyone around him, he pursues his art in poverty and finally settles in Tahiti, where he creates his masterpieces before dying of leprosy.
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