Listen to free audiobook with a 30 day free trial :https://esound.space/audibleTitle: The Moon and SixpenceAuthor: W. Somerset MaughamNarrator: Frederick DavidsonFormat: UnabridgedLength: 7 hrs and 34 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 01-14-05Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.Genres: Fiction, HistoricalSummary:Charles Strickland, the central character, is a stock broker in London. One day, at the age of 40, he leaves his business, his wife, and their children and goes to Paris. He has neither money nor prospects. He knows almost nothing of art. But he is seized with a passion to paint, and for the rest of his life nothing else matters to him. He gives up everything to which he has been accustomed for extreme poverty, social ostracism, and the freedom to paint. When he finally dies of leprosy in Tahiti, where he had gone native, the few paintings that turn up for sale bring only six to 10 francs apiece. But he has achieved his desire to create beauty and, with the years, the world fully recognizes his blazing genius.Contact: [email protected]

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