The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham

"The Moon and Sixpence" by W. Somerset Maugham is a novel published in 1919. It follows Charles Strickland, a middle-aged English stockbroker who abruptly abandons his wife and children to pursue his obsession with becoming an artist. Living in poverty and indifferent to those around him, Strickland destroys relationships in his single-minded pursuit of art and beauty. Inspired by Paul Gauguin's life, the story explores the myth of the artist-genius through a journey from London to Paris to Tahiti. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965
Title The Moon and Sixpence
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_and_Sixpence
Credits Charles Keller and John Hamm
Reading Level Reading ease score: 81.9 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject England -- Fiction
Subject Psychological fiction
Subject Painters -- Fiction
Subject Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island) -- Fiction
Category Text
EBook-No. 222
Release Date
Most Recently Updated Dec 2, 2023
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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