On A Chinese Screen
of W. Somerset Maugham
Description
Maugham spent the winter months of 1919 travelling fifteen hundred miles up the Yangtze river. Always more interested in people than places, he noted down acute and finely crafted sketches of those he met on countless scraps of paper. In the resulting collection we encounter Western missionaries, army officers and company managers who are culturally out of their depth in the immensity of the Chinese civilisation. Maugham keenly observes, and gently ridicules, their dogged and oblivious persistence with the life they know.
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 160 pages
- Publisher Vintage Classics
- Publication Date July 6th 2000
- First Publication 03/08/22
- Language Not informed
- ISBN 9780099289500
- Edition Not informed
- Category History & Politics
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