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ZIN Product Number: 10404537
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 300 pages
Publisher: Publisher's Group West
ISBN: 0940322250
Release Date: Jan 1, 1992
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 1 review.)
| |  | | | From The Publisher
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.
About the Author:
J.R Ackerley (1896-1967) was for many years the literary editor of the BBC magazine The Listener. A respected mentor to such younger writers as Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden, he was also a longtime friend and literary associate of E.M. Forster. His works include three memoirs, Hindoo Holiday, My Dog Tulip, and My Father and Myself, and a novel, We Think the World of You.
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Real Guide to India
-- Hemant Sareen, January 22, 2001
Also Recommended: EM Forster:'Passage to India'.
| | | | The Reader's Catalog
Ackerley's often uproarious recollections of six months spent in the service of a maharajah. "An endearing and beautifully turned account"—Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times
| |  | | | The Word On The Street
Hindoo Holiday sweeps the reader into a Firbankian world of total absurdity, in which the wildest fantasies of superstition and of sexual variety and experiment are the daily routines of the palace. —Stuart Hampshire
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 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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