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The Moon and Sixpence
Résumé
The Moon and Sixpence is a 1919 novel by W. Somerset Maugham that centers on Charles Strickland, a middle-aged English stockbroker who abruptly abandons his wife and children in order to pursue his obsession with becoming an artist. After leaving his former life behind, he lives in poverty and remains indifferent to the people around him, pursuing his ideas of art and beauty with single-minded intensity. The novel draws inspiration from Paul Gauguin’s life and examines the myth of the artist-genius through Strickland’s movement from London to Paris and onward to Tahiti, where his choices shape both his experience and the relationships he leaves behind.
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