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Mr. Maugham recently travelled from Rangoon by river to Mandalay, on horseback through the mountains and forests of the Shan States to Bangkok and by sea to Haiphong. Result: The Gentleman in the Parlour, a desultory sketch book, very little descriptive of the conventional "sights" but occupied, to our richer delight, with personal encounters and reflections by the way. These are the things that give every journey unique value but only the artist is sufficiently aware of that to shed the rest and keep only them' Horace Thorogood in the Evening Standard
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Best known for his novels and plays, Somerset Maugham also produced delightfully engaging and absorbing non-fiction, of which The Gentleman in the Parlour is a prime example. First published in 1935 it describes a journey the author took from Rangoon to Haipong. Whether by river to Mandalay, on horse through the mountains and forests of the Shan States to Bangkok, or onwards by sea, Maugham?s muse is in the spirit of Hazlitt, who wrote: ?It is great to shake off the trammels of the world and public opinion...and to be known by no other title than The Gentleman in the Parlour.
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“ A delightful book. It contains vivid travel impressions...and the plots for a dozen novels.” – Spectator
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- PublisherPan Macmillan
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0330294105
- ISBN 13 9780330294102
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages174
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