Moon and Sixpence, The (version 2)

By Maugham, W. Somerset

Book Id: WPLBN0002954354
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File Size: 221.91 MB
Reproduction Date: 2009

Title:	Moon and Sixpence, The (version 2)
Author:	Maugham, W. Somerset
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Fiction
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Moon and Sixpence, The (version 2)
Historic Publication Date:	1919
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Somerset Maugham, B. W. (1919). Moon and Sixpence, The (version 2). Retrieved from http://www.self.gutenberg.org/

Description
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.

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Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

Excerpt
Fiction