This is the 1919 novel by W Somerset Maugham that is partially modeled on the life of Paul Gaughin, a figure I don’t know much about personally before this novel, but looked him up for this. In the novel, Charles Strickland is a near 40 year old business guy who leaves his wife and teen children after seventeen years of marriage to move to Paris and become an artist. After several years of working at it he moves to Tahiti and starts a new life […]