Moon and Sixpence, The

In Maugham’s “The Moon and Sixpence,” the stockbroker-turned-artist Strickland is posthumously recognized as a genius.

When, just a short time ago, W. Somerset Maugham adapted for the purposes of his sensational novel "The Moon and Sixpence" the character and career of Paul Gauguin, it was in the pages of Huneker that many first looked for, and found, intelligence concerning the master of the Pont Aven school of painting.