The Gentleman in the Parlour - Softcover

Maugham, W. Somerset

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1557782164 ISBN 13: 9781557782168

Publisher: Paragon House Publishers, 1989

Synopsis

Maugham's travels in the 1920s. "The book is so good, and good travel books are rare . . . It has dignity and sensitiveness . . . a real contribution to the literature of travel".--Christian Science Monitor.

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Review:

"There enough raw material to sate his imagination and the journey itself takes on the contours of a story worth recording. Among the coolly-observed descriptions of ruined pagodas there's the added treat of Maugham's catty thoughts on his craft" (Sunday Herald (Glasgow))

"Maugham's finest travel book...As the urbane novelist wends his way through tropic climes, he reads Proust under the mosquito netting, listens to stories of passion and madness from British colonials gone to seed, and bears up under the merciless sun, sipping at a gin and bitters and laying out a hand of solitaire" (Washington Post)

"An elegant writer's notebook, imaginative, crammed with impressions and ideas received simply and directly, without the filtering screens of literariness or Englishness... he writes with majestic plainness" (The Times)

"A delightful book - It contains vivid travel impressions, some autobiographical confidences, and the plots for a dozen novels" (Spectator)

Book Description:

A fantastic portrait of 1920s Burma and Thailand by the neglected 20th century master

About this edition

• Publisher: Paragon House Publishers
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 1557782164
• ISBN 13: 9781557782168
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 306