The Moon and Sixpence
by Somerset Maugham
Publisher: Heinemann 1919
ISBN/ASIN: 0486446026
Number of pages: 228
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The Moon and Sixpence (1919) by William Somerset Maugham is the complex story of Charles Strickland, a man who abandons his family and his secure life as an English businessman to pursue an uncertain but meaningful existence as an artist, from Paris slums to the lush fertility of Tahiti, and into the glory of the creative wilderness.
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