The Moon And Sixpence: Students Edition

A novel inspired loosely by the life of Paul Gauguin. A narrator recalls Charles Strickland, a respectable London stockbroker who suddenly abandons his wife and children to become a painter in Paris, and later in Tahiti. Strickland is selfish and often cruel, yet driven by a compelling need to create. The book asks how far genius excuses harm to others, and what art costs those who pursue it and those around them.