One of W. Somerset Maugham's best-known and well-loved novels
The Moon and Sixpence is a fictionalized biography of the artist Paul
Gauguin. Charles Strickland, a thinly veiled Gauguin, deserts his wife
and children to become a painter. In Paris, he is indifferent to the
friendship offered by a fellow artist, Dirk Stroeve, but it is Stroeve
and his wife Blanche who take Strickland in when he falls ill. It is
only a matter of time before Strickland again devastates those around
him by running away with Blanche. Will he reform his ways for the chance
at a suitable life with Blanche, or will be abandon her as well?
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