Hindoo Holiday

By J. R. Ackerley
Introduction by Eliot Weinberger

By J. R. Ackerley
Introduction by Eliot Weinberger

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    About Hindoo Holiday

    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 Hindoo Holiday

    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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    “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

    Product Details

    Paperback
    Published by NYRB Classics
    Jan 31, 2000 | 320 Pages | 5 x 8 | ISBN 9780940322257

    Ebook
    Published by NYRB Classics
    Oct 31, 2012 | 320 Pages | ISBN 9781590175248

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