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The Moon and Sixpence
novel by Maugham
The Moon and Sixpence, novel by W. Somerset Maugham, published in 1919. It was loosely based on the life of French artist Paul Gauguin.
The novelās hero, Charles Strickland, is a London stockbroker who renounces his wife, children, and business in order to paint. In Paris, Strickland woos and wins a friendās wife away just so that he can paint her; when she kills herself, he is seemingly unaffected but leaves Paris, later settling in Tahiti with a young native woman.
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