Hindoo Holiday: An Indian Journal [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Ackerley, J. R.

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ISBN 10: 0940322250 ISBN 13: 9780940322257

Casa editrice: New York Review of Books, 2000

Riassunto

In the 1920s, the young J. R. Ackerley spent several months in India as the personal secretary to the maharajah of a small Indian principality. In his journals, Ackerley recorded the Maharajah's fantastically eccentric habits and riddling conversations, and the odd shambling day-to-day life of his court. Hindoo Holiday is an intimate and very funny account of an exceedingly strange place, and one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century travel literature.

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L'autore:

J. R. Ackerley (1896-1967) was for many years the literary editor of the BBC magazine The Listener. His works include three memoirs, Hindoo Holiday, My Dog Tulip, and My Father and Myself, and a novel, We Think the World of You (all available as New York Review Books).

Eliot Weinberger is the author of three collections of essays: Outside Stories, Works on Paper, and Karmic Traces. He is also the editor and translator of the Collected Poems of Octavio Paz and the Selected Non-fictions of Jorge Luis Borges.

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Book by Ackerley JR

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• Editore: New York Review of Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0940322250
• ISBN 13: 9780940322257
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 302