The Moon and Sixpence

W. Somerset Maugham

⏱ 8 minRealist classic

A dull London stockbroker abandons everything overnight to paint, and pursues his genius to a leper's hut in Tahiti — ruthless, indifferent, unforgettable. Maugham's novel inspired by the life of Gauguin.

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