The Moon and Sixpence (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: W. Somerset Maugham
- First Published: 1919
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Biographical
- Time of Work: c. 1897-1917
- Setting: England, France, and Tahiti
- Principal Characters: Charles Strickland, Dirk Stroeve, Blanche Stroeve, Ata, Amy Strickland
- Genres: Long fiction, Biographical fiction
- Subjects: France or French people, Nineteenth century, England or English people, Adultery, Creative process, Ethics, Painting or painters, Leprosy, South Pacific, Pacific Ocean
- Locales: Paris, France, London, England, Marseilles, France, Tahiti
The Story:
Charles Strickland, a dull stockbroker, lived in England with his wife and two children. Mrs. Strickland was a model mother, but her husband seemed bored with her and with his children. To everyone else, it was Strickland who seemed commonplace. The family had spent the summer at the seashore, and Strickland had returned ahead of his wife. When she wrote him that she was coming home, he had answered from Paris, simply stating that he was not going to live with her anymore. With singleness of intention, Mrs. Strickland dispatched a friend to Paris to bring back her...
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