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On A Chinese Screen - W. Somerset Maugham

On A Chinese Screen

Buch | Softcover
160 Seiten
2000
Vintage Classics (Verlag)
978-0-09-928950-0 (ISBN)
CHF 15,90 inkl. MwSt
Maugham spent the winter months of 1919 travelling fifteen hundred miles up the Yangtze river. Maugham keenly observes, and gently ridicules, their dogged and oblivious persistence with the life they know.
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.

William Somerset Maugham was born in 1874 and lived in Paris until he was ten. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University. He spent some time at St. Thomas' Hospital with the idea of practising medicine, but the success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, published in 1897, won him over to literature. Of Human Bondage, the first of his masterpieces, came out in 1915, and with the publication in 1919 of The Moon and Sixpence his reputation as a novelist was established. At the same time his fame as a successful playwright and writer was being consolidated with acclaimed productions of various plays and the publication of several short story collections. His other works include travel books, essays, criticism and the autobiographical The Summing Up and A Writer's Notebook. In 1927 Somerset Maugham settled in the South of France and lived there until his death in 1965

Erscheint lt. Verlag 6.7.2000
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 128 x 197 mm
Gewicht 119 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Reisen Reiseberichte Asien
Reiseführer Asien China
ISBN-10 0-09-928950-4 / 0099289504
ISBN-13 978-0-09-928950-0 / 9780099289500
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