num_pages: 238
description: Charles Strickland, a middle-class British stockbroker, abandons his comfortable career and his family to pursue a simple life as an artist in Tahiti, leaving an trail of emotional turmoil behind him. Reprint.
language: English
title: The Moon and Sixpence
titlecomplete: The Moon and Sixpence (Bantam Classics)
characters: Dirk Stroeve, Charles Strickland, Blanche Stroeve
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, France, British Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Art, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 23405
places: London, England, Paris, Tahiti
publisher: Bantam Classics