East of Suez Originally published in East of Suez was Alice Perrin s first collection of short stories Her fascinating and thought provoking tales of Anglo Indian life rival the best work of Kipling and wer
Originally published in 1901, East of Suez was Alice Perrin s first collection of short stories Her fascinating and thought provoking tales of Anglo Indian life rival the best work of Kipling, and were hugely successful in their day Perrin tells stories of illicit love against a beautifully drawn backdrop of the mystical east, interweaving the supernatural with exquisiOriginally published in 1901, East of Suez was Alice Perrin s first collection of short stories Her fascinating and thought provoking tales of Anglo Indian life rival the best work of Kipling, and were hugely successful in their day Perrin tells stories of illicit love against a beautifully drawn backdrop of the mystical east, interweaving the supernatural with exquisite details of her characters lives This scholarly edition includes a critical introduction author biography suggestions for further reading explanatory notes contextual material on representations of the British Raj illustrations from The Illustrated London News and The Windsor Magazine.
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Alice Perrin was born in India in 1867, the daughter of Major General John Innes Robinson, of the Bengal Cavalry, and Bertha Beidermann Robinson After her education in England, Perrin married Charles Perrin d 1931 , an engineer in the India Public Works Department, in 1886, and the couple returned to India for the next sixteen years Perrin s career as a popular Anglo Indian novelist and short story writer began with the two volume novel Into Temptation, published in 1894 Her first collection of short stories, East of Suez, appeared in 1901 She continued publishing novels every two to three years until her last novel, Other Sheep, was published in 1932, two years before her death in Vevey, Switzerland, in 1934 In total, she published seventeen novels, many of which focus on the British colonial experience in India, such as The Spell of the Jungle 1902 , The Anglo Indians 1912 , The Happy Hunting Ground 1914 , Star of India 1919 , and Government House 1925.
239 Replys to “East of Suez”
This is indeed a moving book of short stories from the Raj. Some stories like 'Beynon- Of the Irrigation Department' where the protagonist throws himself to the river swarming with alligators in lament of affection not returned and 'An Eastern echo' where an Inspector is killed in a Muharram procession. Other stories like 'Caulfield's Crime' are eerie where a man shot by a bird-shooter becomes a jackal and haunts the shooter or 'The Summoning of Arnold' where the protagonist's dead wife comes ca [...]
Lovely collection of short stories ( some ghost stories included ) set in the British Raj.
This was an interesting, thought not exceptional, collection of short stories. The sentimentally-toned stories focus on the lives of the British civil servants and army personnel, and their wives, the necessary partners in the domestic dramas of the stories, who spent their careers in India. The 'natives' are simplistic, rarely developed characters. The second half, which has more ghost stories, was much more interesting to me than the love stories--the affairs, the almost affairs, the suspected [...]
This was well written but the blurb claimed a parallel with Kipling. This, to me, is unjustified. Kipling is better by a factor of at least ten. (Sorry, Alice!)
This is a book of short stories set in colonial india. I liked the stories.