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She Was a Queen: Historical Novel

English · Paperback / Softback

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She was indeed a Queen. Born a peasant in thirteenth-century Burma, Queen Saw--young, beautiful, and extremely intelligent--reigned beside two kings. Everything luxuriantly cruel or voluptuously lovely swirled around the royal White Umbrella: mandarins, oracle-eating tigers, murdersome intrigue, egg-sized emeralds, concubines, fearsome magic, Tartars, and groveling courtiers (with elbows calloused as thickly as the soles of their feet). Queen Saw happily survived all--her two husbands as well as the Mongol invasion. Wonderful in its details and historical lore, the chief enchantment of She Was a Queen is the storytelling style of Maurice Collis. A book by him, Eudora Welty noted, "is as strategically put together and as fantastically simple as a fairy tale; and it affects us, quite aside from the scholarship of Mr. Collis, with that true belief we gave fairy tales when children."


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Authors Maurice Collis
Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation
 
Content Book
Product form Paperback / Softback
Publication date 01.06.1991
Subject Fiction > Narrative literature
 
EAN 9780811211697
ISBN 978-0-8112-1169-7
Pages 301
Dimensions (packing) 13.6 x 20.2 x 2.2 cm
Weight (packing) 363 g
 
Series New Directions Revived Modern > 0
Subjects FICTION / Literary
Literature - Classics / Criticism
 

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