Exploration & Journeys
On a Chinese Screen
W. Somerset Maugham
2026
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Fifty eight sketches, some of them barely a page, all of them lethal. Maugham went up the Yangtze in 1920 and wrote down exactly what he saw: the missionaries, the consuls, the taipans, the philosopher, the bearers on the road, the Englishwoman who had not adapted. Portraits so precise that several of the originals recognised themselves and never forgave him for it.
Inside this audiobook
20 chapters
- 1The Rising of the Curtain4m
- 22 My Lady's Parlour 3 The Mongol Chief 4 The Rolling Stone10m
- 35 The Cabinet Minister 6 Dinner Parties 7 The Altar of Heaven19m
- 48 The Servents of God 9 The Inn 10 The Glory Hole16m
- 511 Fear 12 The Picture 13 Her Britannic Majesty's Representative19m
- 614 The Opium Den 15 The Last Chance 16 The Nun8m
- 717 Henderson 18 Dawn 19 The Point of Honour17m
- 820 The Beast of Burden 21 Dr. MacAlister 22 The Road18m
- 9God's Truth, Romance, and The Grand Style19m
- 1026 Rain 27 Sullivan 28 The Dining-Room16m
- 1129 Arabesque 30 The Consul 31 The Stripling12m
- 1232 The Fannings 33 The Song of the River 34 Mirage11m
- 1335 The Stranger 36 Democracy 37 The Seventh Day Adventist14m
- 14The Philosopher 39 The Missionary Lady 40 A Game of Billiards20m
- 1541 The Skipper 42 The Sights of the Town 43 Nightfall13m
- 1644 The Normal Man 45 The Old Timer 46 The Plain16m
- 1747 Failure 48 A Student of the Drama 49 The Taipan28m
- 1850 Metempsychosis 51 The Fragment 52 One of the Best13m
- 1953 The Sea-Dog 54 The Question 55 The Sinologue14m
- 2056 The Vice-Consul 57 A Crrr Built on a Rock 58 Libation to the Gods19m
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