She Was a Queen: Historical Novel by Maurice Collis

She Was a Queen: Historical Novel by Maurice Collis

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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ISBN 13	9780811211697
ISBN 10	081121169X
Title	She Was a Queen: Historical Novel
Author	Maurice Collis
Series	New Directions Revived Modern Classics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	New Directions Publishing Corporation
Year published	1991-07-25
Number of pages	301
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.