On a Chinese Screen - Softcover

Maugham, W. Somerset

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1557782520 ISBN 13: 9781557782526

Publisher: Universal Sales & Marketing, 1990

Synopsis

They are built of dried mud and so dilapidated that you feel a breath of wind will lay them flat upon the dusty earth from which they have been made. A string of camels, heavily laden, steps warily past you. They wear the disdainful air of profiteers forced to traverse a world in which many people are not so rich as they. A little crowd, tattered in their blue clothes, is gathered about the gate and it scatters as a youth in a pointed cap gallops up on a Mongolian pony. A band of children are chasing a lame dog and they throw clods of mud at it. Two stout gentlemen in long black gowns of figured silk and silk jackets stand talking to one another. Each holds a little stick, perched on which, with a string attached to its leg, is a little bird. They have brought out their pets for an airing and in friendly fashion compare their merits.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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Review:

"Evoke the nostalgic China of "old China hands," replete with rickshaws, coolies and singsing girls...satisfying accounts of the follies and foibles of the British diplomats and expatriates who stubbornly ignore the native culture and labor to create little enclaves of Chelsea and Soho in Asia" (Los Angeles Times)

"Masterly...carefully wrought prose sketches...The magical, mysterious East is richly portrayed" (Newsday)

"A fascinating volume - vivid, thoughtful, full of colour" (New York Times)

Book Description:

*A combination of classic Maugham observation and evocative travel writing. *'A fascinating volume - vivid, thoughtful, full of colour, picturesque, stimulating to the imagination' - NEW YORK TIMES. *Part of Mandarin's Maugham publishing programme, with all his major work now available. *Beautiful new repackages *'The modern writer who has influenced me most' George Orwell.

About this edition

• Publisher: Universal Sales & Marketing
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 1557782520
• ISBN 13: 9781557782526
• Binding: Paperback