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The Ten Thousand Things Winner Of The Walter Scott Prize For Historical Fiction
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Author : John Spurling
language : en
Publisher: Prelude Books
Release Date : 2014-04-24
The Ten Thousand Things Winner Of The Walter Scott Prize For Historical Fiction written by John Spurling and has been published by Prelude Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-24 with Fiction categories.
Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction (2015), The Ten Thousand Things takes us on a journey across fated meetings, grand battles and riveting drama. In the turbulent final years of the Yuan Dynasty, Wang Meng is a low-level bureaucrat employed by the government of Mongol conquerors established by the Kublai Khan. Though he wonders about his own complicity with this regime he prefers not to dwell on his official duties, choosing instead to live the life of the mind. Wang is an extraordinarily gifted artist and his paintings are at once delicate and confident; in them one can see the wind blowing through the trees, the water rushing through rocky valleys, the infinite expanse of China's natural beauty. But this is not a time for sitting still as Wang must soon travel through an empire in turmoil. In his wanderings he encounters master painters, a fierce female warrior known as the White Tigress who will recruit him as a military strategist, and an ugly young Buddhist monk who rises from beggary to extraordinary heights. The Ten Thousand Things seamlessly fuses the epic and the intimate with the precision and depth that the real-life Wang Meng brought to his painting. ***PRAISE FOR THE TEN THOUSAND THINGS*** 'It has the sort of sensual prose that makes the reader purr with delight and is surely destined to be one of the books of the year.' The Daily Mail 'Spurling has mastered many aspects of Chinese history and legend.' Times Literary Supplement 'Told by Wang from the cell into which he has been thrust in his old age, the story of his career becomes an intelligent, graceful meditation on the difficulties of reconciling spiritual life with the material world.' The Sunday Times 'I've never read anything like it... great feats of scholarship and imagination have gone into making these people, so distant from us in space and time' Literary Review 'This intricately wrought study of medieval Chinese scholar-artists is wonderfully well imagined.' The Spectator 'It is ostensibly a historical novel, but Spurling has in fact written a love letter to Chinese art.' New Statesman This is a remarkable novel that deserves to be read slowly and savoured as one would a stunning landscape or a beautiful painting.' Herald Scotland 'Those who appreciate a subtle, thoughtful narrative, and are willing to engage with the kind of philosophical questions that are as relevant today as they were in 14th-century China, will relish every page of it.' BBC History magazine 'In this immersive tale of a landscape artist's life, written with restrained lyricism, John Spurling has also given us an entertaining and insightful study about the art of nature, and the nature of art.' Tan Twan Eng, author of The Garden of Evening Mists
The Ten Thousand Things
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Author : John Spurling
language : en
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Release Date : 2015-04-07
The Ten Thousand Things written by John Spurling and has been published by Harry N. Abrams this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-07 with Fiction categories.
Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
After Zenda
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Author : John Spurling
language : en
Publisher:
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The British Empire Part One
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Author : John Spurling
language : en
Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers
Release Date : 1982
The British Empire Part One written by John Spurling and has been published by Marion Boyars Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Drama categories.
The Victorian explorer and anthropologist Richard Burton is dictating his scandalous translation of 'The Arabian Nights' to his wife Isabel. Intercut with this bizarre Victorian literary event are scenes - some well known and some obscure - from Britain's Imperial past.
The Garden Of Evening Mists
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Author : Tan Twan Eng
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2013-05-02
The Garden Of Evening Mists written by Tan Twan Eng and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-02 with Fiction categories.
A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER OF THE MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE AND THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE Teoh Yun Ling was seventeen years old when she first heard about Aritomo and the garden. But a war would come to Malaya, and a decade pass before she would travel to see him. A man of extraordinary skill and reputation, Aritomo was once the gardener for the Emperor of Japan, and now Yun Ling needs him. She needs him to help her build a memorial to her beloved sister, killed at the hands of the Japanese. She wants to learn everything Aritomo can teach her, and do her sister proud, but to do so she must also begin a journey into her own past, a past inextricably linked with the secrets of her troubled country. A story of art, war, love and memory, The Garden of Evening Mists captures a dark moment in history with richness, power and incredible beauty.
Arcadian Nights
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Author : John Spurling
language : en
Publisher: Prelude Books
Release Date : 2016-08-11
Arcadian Nights written by John Spurling and has been published by Prelude Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-11 with Social Science categories.
In this vibrant, gripping and often grisly retelling of the Greek myths, stories of murder, power, revenge, love, and traumatic family relationships are made new again for our time with wit and relish by a gifted author. Spurling has added scene, dialogue, and context, while always staying true to the spirit of the original myth. Taking as his starting point many of the famous tourist sites in the Peloponnese, where the stories are set, John Spurling freshly imagines key narratives from the Greek canon, including tales of the doomed house of Atreus (notably Agamemnon, leader of the Greeks at Troy, murdered by his wife in his palace bathroom); of the god Apollo; goddess Athene; Theseus, scourge of the Minotaur; the Twelve Labors of Heracles; and Perseus, rescuer of Andromeda.
The British Empire Part One
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Author : John Spurling
language : en
Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers
Release Date : 1982
The British Empire Part One written by John Spurling and has been published by Marion Boyars Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Great Britain categories.
In The Heart Of The British Museum
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Author : John Spurling
language : en
Publisher: London : Calder and Boyars
Release Date : 1972
In The Heart Of The British Museum written by John Spurling and has been published by London : Calder and Boyars this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with English drama categories.
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Arcadian Days
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Author : John Spurling
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2023-03-07
Arcadian Days written by John Spurling and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-07 with Fiction categories.
A bold and dynamic retelling of five great male-female pairings from the Greek myths: Prometheus and Pandora, Jason and Medea, Oedipus and Antigone, Achilles and Thetis, and Odysseus and Penelope. Award-winning historical novelist and playwright John Spurling draws on his lifelong love and knowledge of Classical Greek drama and poetry to reanimate five great male–female storylines from the Greek myths. The Greek myths, refined by the great poets and playwrights of ancient Greece, distil the essence of human life: its brief span, its pride, courage, and insecurity, its anxious relationship with the natural world—earth, sea, and sky, represented by powerful gods and monsters. Taking inspiration from the incomparably beautiful and intense poetry of Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, John Spurling—a lifelong classicist and an award-winning playwright—spins five myths for contemporary readers. These captivating tales center on male-female pairs—Prometheus and Pandora, Jason and the sorceress Medea, Oedipus and his daughter Antigone, Achilles and his mother Thetis, Odysseus and Penelope—who, in the course of their stories, destroyed dynasties, raised and felled heroes, and sealed the fates of men.
Viper Wine
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Author : Hermione Eyre
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2014-03-13
Viper Wine written by Hermione Eyre and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-13 with Fiction categories.
'Wickedly funny' The Times Famed beauty Venetia Stanley is so extravagantly dazzling she has inspired Ben Jonson to poetry and Van Dyck to painting, provoking adoration and emulation from the masses. Stampedes follow her arrival in town. However, as she approaches middle age, the attention turns to scrutiny. Her adoring husband Sir Kenelm Digby - philosopher, alchemist and time-traveller - wishes she would age naturally, but Venetia discovers a potent and addictive elixir of youth, Viper Wine. Set on the eve of the English Civil War, and based on a true story, this brilliant novel asks a very contemporary question: what is the cost of beauty? 'Dazzling' Observer 'Intoxicating' Independent on Sunday