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The Gentleman in the Parlour: A Record of a Journey from Rangoon to Haiphong

โœ Scribed by Maugham, William Somerset

Book ID
108594599
Publisher
Random House
Tongue
English
Weight
187 KB
Category
Fiction

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โœฆ 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. 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.

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