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The moon and sixpence

by William Somerset Maugham

1919 294 pages eng ★ 4.7 (10 ratings)

The Moon and Sixpence is a fictional novel heavily influenced by the life of French painter Paul Gauguin. The novel is told first-person, dipping episodically into the mind of the artist. Charles Strickland is an English stock broker, who leaves everything behind him in his middle age to live in def…

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