Moon and Sixpence

By William Somerset Maugham

Moon and Sixpence - William Somerset Maugham
  • Release Date: 2010-01-01
  • Genre: Fiction & Literature

Description

The Moon and Sixpence is a 1919 short novel by William Somerset Maugham based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin. The story is 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 stock broker who abandons his wife and children abruptly to pursue his desire to become an artist.

— Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.