

Studies on Maugham have been thriving abroad. No matter the theme of this novel or the relationship with Paul Gauguin or the reflection of the author Maugham s life are full of disputed.

And the novel The Moon and Sixpence is one of his most debatable works. 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. His life and his works are always with argument. The story is told by the narrator as he gradually comes to know the main character. The Moon and Sixpence is a 1919 short novel by William Somerset Maugham based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin. This Maugham novel is based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin.

It is told in episodic form by a first-person narrator, in a series of glimpses into the mind and soul of the central character Charles Strickland, a middle-aged English stockbroker, who abandons his wife and children abruptly to pursue his desire to become an artist. I confess that when first I made acquaintance with Charles Strickland I never for a moment discerned that there was in him anything out of the ordinary. Download cover art Download CD case insert The Moon and Sixpence (version 2) Somerset Maugham first published in 1919. Somerset Maugham, first published on 15 April 1919.
