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On a Chinese Screen

W. Somerset Maugham

Short storiesTravelabout 5 h 30 min of listening

A collection of short vignettes about the people and places W. Somerset Maugham encountered during his travels along the Yangtze River in 1919–20.

Contents

  1. Imprint
  2. Dedication
  3. I: The Rising of the Curtain
  4. II: My Lady’s Parlour
  5. III: The Mongol Chief
  6. IV: The Rolling Stone
  7. V: The Cabinet Minister
  8. VI: Dinner Parties
  9. I: Legation Quarter
  10. II: At a Treaty Port
  11. VII: The Altar of Heaven
  12. VIII: The Servants of God
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  1. IX: The Inn
  2. X: The Glory Hole
  3. XI: Fear
  4. XII: The Picture
  5. XIII: Her Britannic Majesty’s Representative
  6. XIV: The Opium Den
  7. XV: The Last Chance
  8. XVI: The Nun
  9. XVII: Henderson
  10. XVIII: Dawn
  11. XIX: The Point of Honour
  12. XX: The Beast of Burden
  13. XXI: Dr. Macalister
  14. XXII: The Road
  15. XXIII: God’s Truth
  16. XXIV: Romance
  17. XXV: The Grand Style
  18. XXVI: Rain
  19. XXVII: Sullivan
  20. XXVIII: The Dining-Room
  21. XXIX: Arabesque
  22. XXX: The Consul
  23. XXXI: The Stripling
  24. XXXII: The Fannings
  25. XXXIII: The Song of the River
  26. XXXIV: Mirage
  27. XXXV: The Stranger
  28. XXXVI: Democracy
  29. XXXVII: The Seventh Day Adventist
  30. XXXVIII: The Philosopher
  31. XXXIX: The Missionary Lady
  32. XL: A Game of Billiards
  33. XLI: The Skipper
  34. XLII: The Sights of Town
  35. XLIII: Nightfall
  36. XLIV: The Normal Man
  37. XLV: The Old Timer
  38. XLVI: The Plain
  39. XLVII: Failure
  40. XLVIII: A Student of the Drama
  41. XLIX: The Taipan
  42. L: Metempsychosis
  43. LI: The Fragment
  44. LII: One of the Best
  45. LIII: The Sea-Dog
  46. LIV: The Question
  47. LV: The Sinologue
  48. LVI: The Vice-Consul
  49. LVII: A City Built on a Rock
  50. LVIII: A Libation to the Gods
  51. Endnotes
  52. Colophon
  53. Uncopyright

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