A British stockbroker abandons his wife and career to pursue a simple life as an artist in Tahiti.
Based on the life of Paul Gaugin, THE MOON AND SIXPENCE chronicles the life of Charles Strickland, a middle-class stockbroker who flees from his London life and family, first to Paris and then to a distant Pacific island. The narrator of the story, a writer, tracks down Strickland as a favor to his wife, a society woman known for her interest in art until her husband deserts her.
- Genre: Juvenile Fiction, Fiction + Literature Genres
- Subgenre: People + Places / Europe, Classics, General
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- Pages: 204
- Language: English
- Format: paperback
- Release Date: November 29, 2005
- Date Published: November 29, 2005
- Author: W. Maugham, W. Somerset Maugham, Robert Calder