William Somerset Maugham ''The Moon and Sixpence''

Summary, 53-58

    Dr. Coutras, whom Tiare introduced to Crabbe, told about the last years of Strickland, who died of leprosy. Ata decided to leave with her husband in isolation from the people. Only Dr. Coutras visited them. Three years later, the doctor visited them again and learned that Strickland died. Inside the house, he saw the walls were painted by Strickland in some alluring, mysterious painting. All it made a great impression on him and he recognized him a genius.

    Strickland put his whole soul into his last creation and he was able to expel the demon who possessed him for many years. However Strickland made Ata to promise that she would burn the house after his death, so Ata did it.

    The narrator returned to London, where he met again Mrs.Strickland. Her sister handed down a pretty sizable fortune. Mrs.Strickland introduced Crabbe to american critic, who wrote about Strickland. She had a lot of reproductions of his paintings and made ​​it clear that she and her husband have always had the best relationship. Then Mrs. Strickland called her grown-up children. Crabbe told them everything he knew about Strickland's life in Tahiti and his horrible death. For some reason, the suddenly thought of Strickland's son by Ata, as if he saw him, with his mind's eye, on the schooner on which he worked among the waves of the Pacific Ocean.