On a Chinese Screen

Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Classics
Cover of the book On a Chinese Screen by W. Somerset Maugham, Start Classics
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Author: W. Somerset Maugham ISBN: 9781633554443
Publisher: Start Classics Publication: January 8, 2015
Imprint: Start Classics Language: English
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
ISBN: 9781633554443
Publisher: Start Classics
Publication: January 8, 2015
Imprint: Start Classics
Language: English

Maugham spent the winter months of 1919-20 travelling 1500 miles up the Yangtze River. Always more interested in people than places, he gave full rein to a sensitive and philosophical nature. On a Chinese Screen is the refined accumulation of the countless scraps of paper on which he had taken notes. Within the narrow confines of their colonial milieu, missionaries, consuls, army officers and company managers are all gently ridiculed as they persist obliviously with the life they know.

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Maugham spent the winter months of 1919-20 travelling 1500 miles up the Yangtze River. Always more interested in people than places, he gave full rein to a sensitive and philosophical nature. On a Chinese Screen is the refined accumulation of the countless scraps of paper on which he had taken notes. Within the narrow confines of their colonial milieu, missionaries, consuls, army officers and company managers are all gently ridiculed as they persist obliviously with the life they know.

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