The Moon and Sixpence
W. Somerset Maugham
It narrates the story of Charles Strickland, an English stockbroker, who suddenly deserts his wife and children in order to devote his life to painting. He is a man possessed of an unquenchable desire to create art. Unpleasant in a manner yet strangely charismatic, he makes his way to Paris, Marseilles, and finally Tahiti, producing works of genius that few in his lifetime appreciate—while those he left behind speculate about what drove him to abandon them so abruptly.
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