Tai-Pan The Epic Novel of the Founding of Hong Kong (Paperback)
| Author: James Clavell |
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| " "It is the early 19th century, when European traders and adventurers first began to penetrate the forbidding Chinese mainland. And it is in this exciting time and exotic place that a giant of an Englishman, Dirk Straun, sets out to turn the desolate island of Hong Kong into an impregnable fortress of British power, and to make himself supreme ruler...Tai-Pan! " " |
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An epic fictional account of the founding of Hong Kong.
An epic fictional account of the founding of Hong Kong.
Author Bio
James Clavell
Born Charles Edmund DuMaresq de Clavelle, the multi-talented James Clavell wrote many successful screenplays (including THE GREAT ESCAPE and TO SIR WITH LOVE), and was a director and producer, but he was best known for his monumental best-selling novels set in Asia. Among them were KING RAT (1962), based on his own experiences as a prisoner of war in Singapore's Changi prison; SHOGUN (1975); and NOBLE HOUSE (1981). Clavell died of cancer at his home in Switzerland, just short of his 70th birthday.
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New York Times
"[Clavell] holds attention with a relentless grip. 'Tai-Pan' frequently is crude. It is grossly exaggerated much of the time. But seldom does a novel appear so stuffed with imaginative invention, so packed with melodramatic action, so gaudy and flamboyant with blood and sin, treachery and conspiracy, sex and murder." - Orville Prescott Time
"[A] belly-gutting, god-rotting typhoon of a book....Its narrative pace is numbing, its style deafening, its language penny dreadful....It isn't art and it isn't truth. But its very energy and scope command the eye." 1966
"[Clavell] holds attention with a relentless grip. 'Tai-Pan' frequently is crude. It is grossly exaggerated much of the time. But seldom does a novel appear so stuffed with imaginative invention, so packed with melodramatic action, so gaudy and flamboyant with blood and sin, treachery and conspiracy, sex and murder." - Orville Prescott Time
"[A] belly-gutting, god-rotting typhoon of a book....Its narrative pace is numbing, its style deafening, its language penny dreadful....It isn't art and it isn't truth. But its very energy and scope command the eye." 1966
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