Moon and Sixpence
W. Somerset Maugham
Narrator LibriVox Community
Publisher: LibriVox
Summary
This Maugham novel is based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin. The story is told by the narrator as he gradually comes to know the main character Charles Strickland, a middle aged stock broker. We follow Strickland from the point where he abruptly abandons his wife and children to become an artist, through his life in Paris and Marseille to Tahiti where he eventually dies of leprosy (Summary by Andy Minter)
Duration: about 8 hours (07:48:16) Publishing date: 2014-08-25; Copyright Year: 1919. Copyright Statment: —