01662cam a22003493u 4500 222 UtSlPG 20260610133028.0 m cr n 260607r1995||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PR Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965 The Moon and Sixpence Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 1995 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_and_Sixpence Release date is 1995-02-01 Charles Keller and John Hamm "The Moon and Sixpence" by W. Somerset Maugham is a novel published in 1919. It follows Charles Strickland, a middle-aged English stockbroker who abruptly abandons his wife and children to pursue his obsession with becoming an artist. Living in poverty and indifferent to those around him, Strickland destroys relationships in his single-minded pursuit of art and beauty. Inspired by Paul Gauguin's life, the story explores the myth of the artist-genius through a journey from London to Paris to Tahiti. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified England -- Fiction Psychological fiction Painters -- Fiction Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island) -- Fiction https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/222 42352 42352