The Gentleman In The Parlour

The Gentleman In The Parlour PDF Author: W. Somerset Maugham
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1409088022
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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Book Description
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. The Gentleman in the Parlour is an account of the author's trip through what was then Burma and Siam, ending in Haiphong, Vietnam. Whether by river to Mandalay, on horse through the mountains and forests of the Shan States to Bangkok, or onwards by sea, Maugham's vivid descriptions bring a lost world to life.