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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new York Times Reviewer Orville Prescott Claimed That In tai-pan, 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. A time Critic Labeled The Work A Belly-gutting, God-rotting Typhoon Of A Book And Added: 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.
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- Historical Fiction
- Military
- Historical Fiction
Publisher : Dell
Author : Clavell, James
Language : English
Edition : 1ª
Published :1986-09-01
Number Of Pages : 736
Binding : mass_market
ISBN-10 : 0440184622
ISBN-13 : 9780440184621
Item weight : 0.65 lb
Dimensions : 1.1 in x 4.09 in x 6.89 in
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