In "The Moon and Sixpence", Charles Strickland, is a respectable London stockbroker who decides in middle age to abandon his wife and children and devote himself to his true passion: art. Strickland's destructive desire for self-expression takes him first to Paris to learn the craft of painting, and finally to Tahiti in the South Pacific. "The Moon and Sixpence" remains a complex and engaging novel echoing Maugham's own struggles between artistic expression and public respectability, and between his public persona and private life.
- ISBN10 0760793549
- ISBN13 9780760793541
- Publish Date 17 December 2007
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 23 January 2017
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Barnes & Noble Inc
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 256
- Language English