The Moon and Sixpence is a short novel written by W.Somerset Maugham, in 1919. It is about the life of Charles Stickland narrated through the first person of narrator , who journeys through the life of Charles Strickland.
Charles Strickland, stockbroker in England, having a good wife, children and well settled family life, disappears all of a sudden and goes off to Paris.Why he left the family,work and children? Why did he go to Paris? What did he do in his later part of life? forms the remaining part of book.
This book has one of the excellent quotes of Somerset Maugham. The striking and most selfish character of Charles Strickland, is what the entire book is about. The book is readable upto the point, where there will be a final conversation between Narrator and Charles Strickland, and afterwards, the book becomes dull.
The dialogues of Strickland are extraordinary and very self centric in nature, sometimes they are also very abstract. After you finish the book, Strickland's dialogues and character still haunts you. The book is worth reading and some of the parts of the book makes you to read it again and again, for its striking conversations.
It is said that, the title ' Moon and Sixpence' was given because, Moon indicates the abstract and idealistic realm of Art and Sixpence is about the human relationships and all other comforts and pleasures of life.
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