One character is slapped in the face after following his wife on a shopping trip.
In chapter 12 of this work, one character calls another an "unmitigated cad" after learning that his friend does not care about his children, and in another part of this work, the narrator tells a woman the story of a Jewish surgeon named Abraham. One character is slapped in the face after following his wife on a shopping trip. This work's protagonist leaves his wife and children and stays at a friend's home, where he carries on an affair with Blanche, the wife of that friend Dirk Stroeve. Tiare gives Ata to the protagonist as a wife even though he is already married to Amy, whom he leaves at the beginning of the novel to take up painting. At the end of this novel, the main character dies of leprosy while living in Tahiti. For 10 points, name this novel about Charles Strickland, a stockbroker-turned-painter modeled after Paul Gauguin, a work of William Somerset Maugham.
In chapter 12 of this work, one character calls another an "unmitigated cad" after learning that his friend does not care about his children, and in another part of this work, the narrator tells a woman the story of a Jewish surgeon named Abraham.
The {Moon} and {Sixpence}