Gai-jin

JAMES CLAVELL

Harpercollins

Set in Changi, the most notorious prisoner of war camp in Asia, King Rat is an heroic story of survival told by a master story-teller who lived through those years as a young soldier. Only one man in fifteen had the strength, the luck, and the cleverness simply to survive Changi. And then there was King.

King Rat (Coronet Books)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Coronet

Some marking to tanned page edges. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

Tai Pan (Coronet Books)

Contemporary

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd

Authors: James Clavell Publisher: Hodder Keywords: coronet, books, shogun, clavell, james, making Pages: 224 Published: 1981-09-01 Language: English ISBN-10: 0340261552 ISBN-13: 9780340261552 Binding: Paperback List Price: Unknown

The Making of James Clavell's Shogun

Hodder

Noble House

<p>1440pages. in12. Broché. Age-old feuds still being fought in modern day Hong Kong. -Ce texte fait référence à l'édition Broché. Review The last time I was so taken with a spellbinding safari was when I read Gone With The Wind. -Los Angeles Times. -Ce texte fait référence à l'édition Poche. Voir l'ensemble des Descriptions du produit</p>

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

It was a simple incident in the life of James Clavell—a talk with his young daughter just home from school—that inspired this chilling tale of what could happen in twenty-five quietly devastating minutes. He writes, "The Children's Story came into being that day. It was then that I really realized how vulnerable my child's mind was —any mind, for that matter—under controlled circumstances. Normally I write and rewrite and re-rewrite, but this story came quickly—almost by itself. Barely three words were changed. It pleases me greatly because I kept asking the questions…Questions like, What's the use of 'I pledge allegiance' without understanding? Like Why is it so easy to divert thoughts? Like What is freedom? and Why is so hard to explain?The Children's Story keeps asking me all sorts of questions I cannot answer. Perhaps you can—then your child will...."

The Children's Story: .but Not Just For Children - 1st UK Edition/1st Printing

Hodder&Stoughton

King Rat

British & Irish

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!

Tai Pan

Escape

Over the years, James Clavell produced a phenomenal series of critically acclaimed bestsellers known collectively as the Asian Saga--King Rat, Tai-Pan, Shgun, Noble House, Gai-Jin.  Another novel, Whirlwind, was set in the violent turmoil of Iran after the exile of the Shah in1979. Caught in this shifting world of fanaticism, ambition, duplicity, and death are the foreign helicopter pilots who service Iran's oil fields. Their one objective is to make a bold, concerted escape to safety across the Gulf. In Whirlwind, Clavell told the full story of the three weeks it took them to achieve this. In Escape, he drew out just one poignant thread from that epic narrative--the stirring love story of Erikki, a dashing Finnish pilot, and his ravishing and aristocratic Iranian wife, Azedeh, whom he loved beyond safety and politics. Released after the author's death and originated as the basis of a film script, this moving story is now published here for the first time.

Hodder and Stoughton

When the Shah of Iran is overthrown, that nation's turmoil captures the world's attention.  Caught in this shifting world of fanaticism, ambition, duplicity, heartbreak and violent death are the foreign helicopter pilots who have been servicing the oilfields up and down the country. Their one objective now is to make a bold concerted escape, with their helicopters, to safety across the Gulf. Clavell told the story of the three weeks it took them to achieve this in his 1986 bestseller WHIRLWIND.  In ESCAPE he has taken out just one poignant thread from that epic narrative.  The result is the moving and tender love story of Erikki, the blond Finnish pilot, and his beautiful high-born Iranian wife, Azadeh, whom he loves beyond safety and beyond politics.  "Mr. Clavell is a master writer who studies the subject well and then weaves the story."  (Amazon.com)

Escape (Hodder Summer Reading)

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