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The Moon and Sixpence

By: W. Somerset Maugham
Narrated by: Steven Crossley
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Based on the life of Postimpressionist artist Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence builds on a long tradition of European writing about the South Pacific as an exotic locale. It also marks the transformation of British writer W. Somerset Maugham from celebrated playwright to accomplished novelist.

In The Moon and Sixpence, Charles Strickland is a respectable London stockbroker who decides in middle age to abandon his wife and children and devote himself to his true passion: art. Strickland's destructive desire for self-expression takes him first to Paris to learn the craft of painting, and finally to Tahiti in the South Pacific. The Moon and Sixpence remains a complex and engaging novel echoing Maugham's own struggles between artistic expression and public respectability, and between his public persona and private life.

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Maugham it's one of the most insightful authors of human character which is evident in his other books. He seems to be able to understand very well the motives and passions of those who are different from most Of his compatriots in the very conventional society that he lived in. although the book does not purport to be an accurate biography of Gauguin, it does seem to the show how the painters passions led him to paint the way he did and leave the life that he did. His descriptions of life in Tahiti before mass tourism arrived is wonderful.

insightful fictional account of the life of Paul Gauguin

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