We Think the World of You

Ackerley, J.R.

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Books, Ltd.

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.

Hindoo Holiday: An Indian Journal

Travel

Penguin??Books

The love between friends, Johnny, young and feckless, and Frank, middle-aged and devoted, and their love for Johnny's beautiful pedigree bitch, Evie. These are the main themes of this novel. Throughout, the dog becomes more and more the creature around which their relationships revolve.

A highly entertaining and moving journal chronicling J. R. Ackerley's time in India In the 1920s, the young J. R. Ackerley spent several months in India as the Private Secretary to the Maharajah of Chhokrapur. Knowing almost nothing of India, he discovers Hindu culture, festivals and language, and reveals the fascinating attitudes of the Palace staff on women, marriage. the caste system and death. At the heart of Hindoo Holiday is the wonderfully unpredictable figure of his Highness the Maharajah Sahib who, ultimately, just wants 'someone to love him'.

Modern Classics Hindoo Holiday: An Indian Journal (Penguin Modern Classics)

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Penguin Classic

Letters, Literary Studies, British Studies

The Ackerley Letters

Harcourt

When his father died, J. R. Ackerley was shocked to discover that he had led a secret life. And after Ackerley himself died, he left a surprise of his ownâ€”this coolly considered, unsparingly honest account of his quest to find out the whole truth about the man who had always eluded him in life. But Ackerley's pursuit of his father is also an exploration of the self, making My Father and Myself a pioneering record, at once sexually explicit and emotionally charged, of life as a gay man. This witty, sorrowful, and beautiful book is a classic of twentieth-century memoir.

My father and myself (A Harvest book ; HB 314)

Arts & Literature

Harcourt, Brace. Jovanovich

Presents a sentimental and sometimes amusing portrait of a man's life with his favorite dog, an Alsatian named Tulip

My Dog Tulip

Poseidon Pr

The author shares his memories of his philandering father and describes his growing awareness of his own homosexuality

My Father and Myself

Children's Books

When Johnny is sent to jail for burglary, Frank reluctantly agrees to look after Evie, Johnny's dog

This is Ackerley's account of his six-month stay in India, as the companion to the Maharajah of the small Hindu state of Chhokrapur in the 1920s. The journal extracts the irony, absurdity and farce of life in India as well as the dignity and richness of an ancient culture.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

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We Think the World of You

Hindoo Holiday: An Indian Journal

We Think the World of You

Modern Classics Hindoo Holiday: An Indian Journal (Penguin Modern Classics)

The Ackerley Letters

My father and myself (A Harvest book ; HB 314)

My Dog Tulip

My Father and Myself

We Think the World of You

Hindoo Holiday: An Indian Journal