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She Was a Queen: Historical Novel

She Was a Queen: Historical Novel

Collis, Maurice

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Series: New Directions Revived Modern Classics, Book 0

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ISBN10: 081121169X
ISBN13: 9780811211697
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: Jun 17 1991
Pages: 301
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.87 Width: 5.36 Depth: 7.97
Language: English
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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