Maugham & Tanslated by Li Yan 
Moon and Six Pence 

Charles is a successful middle-aged banker. For the sake of his secret dream of painting, he suddenly left his wife and other children and left home. He knew that every identity of a person was a kind of self-kidnapping, and only losing is the road to freedom. In the foreign country, he was poor and sick, but he became more and more determined and persistent in his dream. He said: I have to draw, just like a drowning man has to struggle. After all sorts of strange encounters, he came to an isolated island in the South Pacific, married a local girl and had children, and successfully created a series of stunning masterpieces …