Individual Reading №1

The Moon and Sixpence. Chapter 1-10

     When the author met Charles Strickland, he was sure that he was an ordinary man. But now nobody would denied his greatness, the time of ridicule had gone. His art amazed you, absorbed your attention. A lot of works had been written about Charles Strickland. 
     The author lived in London when he met Charles for the first time. The narrator moved in the authors’ circle where Rosa Waterford had favorable effect on him and who later acquainted him with Mrs. Strickland.  Mrs. Strickland was married to Charles Strickland who worked as a stockbroker that moment. Mrs. and Mr. Strickland adored one another. 
     The author and Mrs. Strickland quickly became close friends, that’s why he received an invitation to her dinner-party. But during the dinner the narrator had nothing to say and only sat silent. Their family seemed like a shadowiness which you found in people whose lives were parts of social organism so that they existed in it and by it.  
     Much time later the author found out that Mr. Strickland ran away from his wife. Mrs. Strickland said that her husband left her and went to Paris with a woman. A day or two later Mrs. Strickland asked the author to go to Paris and to meet there with her husband. The narrator accepted her offer.