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Jan 31, 2000 | ISBN 9780940322257 Buy
Oct 31, 2012 | ISBN 9781590175248 Buy
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Jan 31, 2000 | ISBN 9780940322257
Oct 31, 2012 | ISBN 9781590175248
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.
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… More about J. R. Ackerley
“One of those books of rare occurrence which stands upon a superior and totally distinct plane of artistic achievement…It is a work of high literary skill and very delicate aesthetic perception and it deals with a character and a milieu which are novel and radiantly delightful. What more, in an imperfect world, has one the right to expect?” — Evelyn Waugh “His humour is the humour of pity and love. He is an artist of the understanding.”— V.S. Pritchett
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