Tag: Novel

  • When a genius thrives in isolation

    When a genius thrives in isolation

    What happens when a happily married middle-aged man decides to abandon his family and pursue his passion to become a painter? In W. Somerset Maugham’s famous novel, The Moon and Sixpence, the central protagonist, forty-year-old Charles Strickland, who is a stockbroker by profession, refuses to embrace the seduction of certainty that his boring and unexciting…