The moon and sixpence
W. Somerset Maugham (Author)
The Moon and Sixpence is a 1919 short novel by William Somerset Maugham based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin. The story is told in episodic form by the first-person narrator as a series of glimpses into the mind and soul of the central character, Charles Strickland, a middle aged English stock broker who abandons his wife and children abruptly to pursue his desire to become an artist
Print Book, English, 1919
Grosset & Dunlap by arrangement with George H. Doran, Company, [New York], 1919
Novels
314 pages ; 21 cm
365836
Reprint of first American edition (New York: G.H. Doran, c.1918, 1919)?