Romancing the East : a literary odyssey from the heart of darkness to the River Kwai / Jerry Hopkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hopkins, Jerry.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asians in literature.

Culture in literature.

European fiction--History and criticism.

European fiction.

European prose literature--History and criticism.

European prose literature.

American fiction--History and criticism.

American fiction.

American prose literature--History and criticism.

American prose literature.

Asia--In literature.

Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (339 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

North Clarendon, Vt. : Tuttle Pub., 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From the time of Marco Polo's trek across the Central Asian desert to the empire of the mighty Kahn, no other place on earth, not the languid South Pacific or even deepest, darkest Africa has so challenged and enchanted the Western imagination as have the fabled lands of the East!However soaked in blood its history and no matter how unsettling its social conditions and poverty, Asia has never lost its irresistible attraction or mystic. Asia has long been an inspiration for Western novelists, so much so that more than 5000 novels have been set in Asia in the English language alone.

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Joseph Conrad: The Myth of the Great White Rajah; Anna Leonowens: And the King of Siam; Lafcadio Hearn: Traditional Legends and Ghost Stories from Japan; Rudyard Kipling: The White Man's Burden; André Malraux: XXX; George Orwell: Burmese Days; W. Somerset Maugham: On Asia's Edge; E.M. Forster: A Passage to India; James Hilton: Lost Horizon, Shangri-La; Pearl S. Buck: The Good Earth; John Masters: Bhowani Junction; Graham Greene: The Quiet American; Sax Rohmer: The Yellow Peril; Earl Derr Biggers: Charlie Chan; James Michener: Sayonara

Richard Mason: The World of Suzie WongJames Clavell: King Rat; Anthony Burgess: The Devil of a State; Marguerite Duras: The Lover; Pierre Boulle: The Bridge Over the River Kwai; Paul Theroux: American Pimp in Singapore; Ian Fleming: You Only Live Twice; William J. Lederer & Eugene Burdick: The Ugly American; Dominique Lapierre: The City of Joy; Richard Condon: The Manchurian Candidate; Amy Tan: The Joy Luck Club; Michael Crichton: Rising Sun; Arthur Golden: Memoirs of a Geisha; Alex Garland: The Beach; Eric Van Lustbader (and Friends): The Ninja

Michel Holleubecq & John Burdett: Thailand's Sex IndustryV.S. Naipaul: A Million Mutinies Now; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-4629-1187-0