Palace of Heavenly Pleasure Tapa blanda - 2003

Paperback. Good.

Hodder & Stoughton. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Hodder and Stoughton, UK, 2003. Trade Paperback. Poor (ex-library). Trade Paperback. 720 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Hodder and Stoughton, UK, 2003. *** CONDITION: This book is in poor (ex-library) condition. More specifically: Ex-library with usual marks, stamps, stickers. Covers have heavy creasing. Edges of covers have moderate edgewear and corners are moderately bumped. Spine has moderate reading creases. . Edges of pages are reasonably browned. Pages are moderately creased. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: In this title, a group of foreigners in the provincial Chinese town of Shishan find the status quo upset when the young middle-class Helen Frances arrives and falls in love with the Hon Henry Manners. But while she tries to resist betraying her solid but dull fiance, the Boxer rebellion threatens them all. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Historical; ISBN: 0340827890. ISBN/EAN: 9780340827895. Inventory No: 18060089.. 9780340827895

Hodder & Stoughton. First paperback edition-first printing. Paperback. As new. Mint condition.Hodder & Stoughton,2003.First paperback edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2).Paperback(small nick and crease on the edges of the cover and spine)in mint condition.The book is new with a small ink mark on the outer edge of the pages,small nick and a couple creases on the edges of the pages.704pp.Price un-clipped.Heavy book. This is another paragraph Review: Adam Williams knows China well and The Palace of Heavenly Pleasure is notable as much for his vivid sense of the land and its people as for being a thumping good melodramatic yarn. n nOld-style historical novels tend to see things in black and white--Williams is as fascinated with the cultural misunderstandings and downright oppressions through which Europeans made themselves hated in China as he is with the martyrdoms and heroisms involved in the European experience of the Boxer rising. He has a passionate sense of the complexities--a… Leer más