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Title: The Gentleman in the Parlour
Subtitle: A Record of a Journey from Rangoon to Haiphong
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
Narrator: Charlton Griffin
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-21-13
Publisher: Audio Connoisseur
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 25 votes
Genres: Classics, British Literature
Publisher's Summary:
Somerset Maugham set out on an extraordinary trip in September of 1922. He would remain abroad for nine months and end up traveling by canoe, riverboat, rickshaw and mule from Rangoon to Mandalay in Upper Burma, down through Thailand to Bangkok, then to Phnom Penh and across the jungle by river to Angkor Wat. From there he went down river to Saigon, then by ship to Hue and Haiphong. He ends the audiobook with an anecdotal story of his fellow passengers while on shipboard to Haiphong.
It is a beautifully crafted travelogue by one of the century's most sophisticated and arresting personalities. From stranded Europeans to staid local inhabitants, Maugham's gaze takes in a myriad of details which he would later end up using in his short stories and novels. Come along on a journey to Southeast Asia as it was between the warsand as it would never be again.
Critic Reviews:
"Maugham wrote the book, he tells us, for his own diversion, and that diversion the listener shares, feeling as if he had himself made the journey...and with an exceptionally interesting, exceptionally agreeable companion." (The New York Times)
