- British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, psychological, Tahiti, fiction, Artists, fiction
The Moon and Sixpence is a fictional novel heavily influenced by the life of French painter Paul Gauguin. The novel is told first-person, dipping episodically into the mind of the artist. Charles Strickland is an English stock broker, who leaves everything behind him in his middle age to live in defiant squalor in Paris as an artist. His genius is eventually recognized by a Dutch painter.
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- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
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- Author
- William Somerset Maugham
- First published
- 1919
- Pages
- 238
- Publisher
- IndyPublish.com, Bookcassette, Caedmon Audio Cassette
- Editions
- 397
- Language
- Japanese, Italian, Chinese, Portuguese
- ISBN
- 9781979662857
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“I confess that when first I made acquaintance with Charles Strickland I never for a moment discerned that there was in him anything out of the ordinary.”
William Somerset Maugham was born at the British Embassy in Paris, France, where his father was an English lawyer handling the legal affairs of the British embassy. His mother died of tuberculosis while he was young, a death which traumatized him for life. Two years later, his father died of cancer, and he was sent to England to be cared for by his uncle, Henry MacDonald Maugham, the Vicar of Whitstable, in Kent. His uncle was cold and cruel, and the boarding school he attended, The King's School in Canterbury, was also miserable for him. At sixteen, he refused to continue at The King's School and he was allowed to travel to Germany, where he studied literature, philosophy and German at Heid
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