Andalusia

If Somerset Maugham went somewhere and wrote about it, it is doubtless worth reading about. His Andalusia, published in 1920 by Alfred A. Knopf, is an affectionate but hardly sentimental portrait of a people he deems both lazy and boisterous, thieving and generous, in a landscape he finds both dazzling and desolate. Through it all he sees echoes of the region's Moorish heritage and cause, primarily aesthetic, to lament its passing.