The moon and sixpence, a novel

By William Somerset Maugham

Subjects: American fiction, Historical Fiction, England, fiction, Literature, Psychological fiction, Tahiti, Large type books, Tahiti in fiction, England -- Fiction, Painters, Fiction, Tahiti, fiction, Painters -- Fiction, Painters in fiction, Artists, fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), England in fiction, Fiction, psychological, Classic Literature, Artists, Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island) -- Fiction

Description: 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.