The Moon and Sixpence

Description:

The Moon and Sixpence is a fictional novel heavily influenced by the life of French painter Paul Gauguin. The novel is told first-person, dipping episodically into the mind of the artist. Charles Strickland is an English stock broker, who leaves everything behind him in his middle age to live in defiant squalor in Paris as an artist. His genius is eventually recognized by a Dutch painter.

subjects: British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author),  Fiction, psychological,  Tahiti, fiction,  Artists, fiction,  American fiction,  Classic Literature,  England in fiction,  Fiction,  Historical Fiction,  Literature,  Painters,  Painters in fiction,  Tahiti,  Tahiti in fiction,  Large type books,  England, fiction,  England -- Fiction,  Psychological fiction,  Painters -- Fiction,  Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island) -- Fiction,  Artists,  Fiction, general

People: Paul Gauguin,  W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965),  Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)

Places: England,  Paris,  Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island),  Tahiti,  French Polynesia,  Tahiti (Island)

Times: In the late 19th or early 20th century