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ALSO BY W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

“[Maugham’s] excessively rare gift of story-telling … is almost the equal of imagination itself.”

—Sunday Times (London)

THE MOON AND SIXPENCE

When Charles Strickland leaves his wife and flees to Paris, gossip suggests that a pretty dancer is to blame. But a more shocking discovery is made: Charles Strickland has become a painter. Based on the life of Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence is an ode to the powerful—if indifferent—forces behind creative genius. For during his lifetime, Strickland is known more for his lack of compassion than for his talent. In France, he will destroy two lives with one stroke. And on a Pacific atoll thousands of miles from his birthplace, he will destroy his own.

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UP AT THE VILLA

Earlier that June day in 1938, Mary Panton had asked that two chairs be arranged on the veranda of her Tuscan home so that Edgar Swift might propose to her. Given that Edgar was twenty-four years her senior and a decorated Empire-builder, it seemed that Mary’s future was secured. And given that Edgar was madly in love with her, Mary could afford to postpone her reply a few days. But driving the hills alone that evening, Mary offers a ride to a handsome stranger, a refugee of war who harbors more than one form of passion, and suddenly, her life is utterly, irrevocably altered.

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