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James Clavell
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Lib.Ru: Джеймс Клавелл
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SHOGUN
James Clavell is a half-Irish Englishman, born in Canada and educated in Portsmouth. He served as a captain in the Royal Artillery during the war. In 1942 he was captured by the Japanese and sent to Changi. It was on his experience in Changi that his bestselling novel KING RAT was based. The interest in Asia, its people and culture continued with TAI-PAN, a tale of Canton and Hong Kong in the mid-19th century and the founding of an Anglo-Chinese trading company, Struan's. This was followed by the classic SHOGUN, the story of Japan during the period two centuries before when Europe first began to make an impact on the island people of the Rising Sun. NOBLE HOUSE, the fourth novel in the Asian saga, continued the story of Struan's, the Hong Kong trading company, as the winds of change blew through the Far East. GAI-JIN is the third novel in the Asian saga set twenty years after the end of TAI-PAN. [eng] |
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James Clavell
1924–1994, (Charles Edmund DuMaresq de Clavelle), screenwriter, director, producer, novelist born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Although he wrote the screenplays for a number of acclaimed films, including The Fly (1958), The Great Escape (1963), and To Sir With Love (1967), he is best known for his epic novels. [eng] |
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James Clavell @ Catharton Authors
James Clavell and resources concerning his works. [eng] |
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The Unofficial James Clavell Website
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Clavell
James Clavell was born in 1924. During WWII he was captured and was a prisoner of war in Changi prison in Singapore. That experience later became his inspiration for King Rat in 1962. In the early '60's he lived in Hong Kong where he wrote Tai-pan in 1966. James Clavell died September of 1994 in Swizerland after a short illness.His literary genius will be sorely missed. Of all his books I enjoyed Shogun,(1975)the most. [eng] |
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Gai-Jin - James Clavell (1994)
"Gai-Jin, meaning foreigner, is set in Japan, in 1862. It is not history but fiction. Many of the happenings did occur according to historians and to books of history which, of themselves, so not necessarily always relate what truly happened. Nor is it about any real person who lived or is supposed to have lived, nor about any real company. Kings and queens and emperors are correctly named, as are a few generals and other exalted persons. Apart from these I have played with history--the where and how and who and why of it--to suit my own reality and, perhaps, to tell the real history of what came to pass." [eng] |
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