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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PAUL THEROUX

Somerset Maugham's success as a writer enabled him to indulge his adventurous love of travel, and he recorded the sights and sounds of his wide-ranging journeys with an urbane, wry style all his own.



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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 *

Maugham W Gentleman In The Parlour

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    A Paperback / softback by W. Somerset Maugham, Paul Theroux

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage Classics
      Published 6 September 2001
      ISBN-13 9780099286776
      978-0099286776
      ISBN-10 0099286777
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PAUL THEROUX

      Somerset Maugham's success as a writer enabled him to indulge his adventurous love of travel, and he recorded the sights and sounds of his wide-ranging journeys with an urbane, wry style all his own.



      Trade 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 *

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