The Moon and Sixpence new-arrivals-090523 as never before

as never before

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listening to the heartbreaking story of an orphaned child

a salesman who becomes disillusioned with the American dream

The Moon and Sixpence new-arrivals-090523 as never beforeOne of the novels that galvanized W. Somerset Maughams reputation as a literary masterThe Moon and Sixpence follows the life of one Charles Strickland, a bourgeois city gent whose dull exterior conceals the soul of a genius. Compulsive and impassioned, he abandons his home, wife, and children to devote himself slavishly to painting. In a tiny studio in Paris, he fills canvas after canvas, refusing to sell or even exhibit his work. Beset by poverty,