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The Skeptical Romancer: Selected Travel Writing

The Skeptical Romancer: Selected Travel Writing

Maugham, W. Somerset
Iyer, Pico

Paperback

Series: Vintage International

Travel GeneralTravel Writing

ISBN10: 030747318X
ISBN13: 9780307473189
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Feb 14 2012
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.68 Width: 5.18 Depth: 8.06
Language: English

One of the seminal writers of the twentieth century, W. Somerset Maugham was also a fearless and constant traveler who chronicled his adventures with a rare mix of wit and excitement. In The Skeptical Romancer, acclaimed travel writer Pico Iyer selects vignettes of Maugham's wise and vivid prose that track his transformation from a boyish traveler in Spain to a worldly man of letters, looking back on India, China, Russia, and America. Beginning with an early book on Spain and culminating in excerpts from old age, this collection introduces us to Maugham at his most surprising, charming, and prophetic. In piece after piece, one can see the spirit that continues to cast an unrivaled influence over successors from Graham Greene to Paul Theroux, from Jan Morris to V. S. Naipaul.

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