On a Chinese Screen: Sketches of Life in China

Name: On a Chinese Screen: Sketches of Life in China
Author: William Somerset Maugham
ISBN: 9781802560336

Author: William Somerset Maugham
Read by: James Harrington
Language: English
Length: 4 hours 30 minutes
ISBN: 9781802560336
Published: 24 August 2024
Imprint: Sovereign

Chinese Life
Sketches
Diverse Characters
Culture
Customs
Human Interactions
Transition
People
Traditions
Winds of Change

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Short sketches of China in motion: missionaries, traders, officials, and ordinary faces caught between custom and change. Travel prose with a cool eye. Spoken as Maugham when a country arrives as people, not as a speech.

Author

W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) wrote Of Human Bondage, The Moon and Sixpence, and a famous shelf of stories from the South Seas and the drawing room. A doctor by training, he observed with a cool, professional eye: desire, failure, and the cost of a vocation. With 35 titles in our catalogue, Maugham remains the English novelist of worldly intelligence — never sentimental, always readable.

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Ebook · English · Sovereign9781787249141