Ebook {Epub PDF} The Gentleman in the Parlour by W. Somerset Maugham

The gentleman in the parlour Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), This is Maugham's account of a journey he made from Rangoon to Haiphong - by river to Mandalay, on horseback through mountains and forests to Bangkok, and onwards by sea.4/5(1).  · 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 3/5(1).  · In The Gentleman in the Parlour, instead of remembering the foreign land from home, Maugham begins with a reflection on Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt (for those who are familiar with the latter, one could trace similarities in Maugham's essays). When he opens Hazlitt’s book of essays, he is already on Irrawaddy sailing towards bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 4 mins.

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