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The Moon and Sixpence
W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
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A novel following Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbroker who abandons his conventional life to pursue painting, drawing loosely on the life of Paul Gauguin. Suited to readers interested in early twentieth-century literary fiction and the tension between artistic obsession and social duty.
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