- Mass Market Paperback: 736 pages
- Publisher: Dell Publishing Company; Reissue edition (Jun 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0440184622
- ISBN-13: 978-0440184621
- Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 3.2 x 17.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 385,240 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Intensely readable and exciting' (Sunday Telegraph )
'James Clavell is a teller of stories. They are complicated and exciting, and you are desperate to know what will happen to his characters because they are like the people you know from your own life and experience, set in strange and sometimes terrible circumstances' (John Simpson )
'Packed with action . . . gaudy and flamboyant with blood and sin, treachery and conspiracy, sex and murder . . . grand entertainment' (New York Times ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
'James Clavell is a teller of stories. They are complicated and exciting, and you are desperate to know what will happen to his characters because they are like the people you know from your own life and experience, set in strange and sometimes terrible circumstances' (John Simpson )
'Packed with action . . . gaudy and flamboyant with blood and sin, treachery and conspiracy, sex and murder . . . grand entertainment' (New York Times ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Dirk Struan came up onto the quarterdeck of the flagship H.M.S. Vengeance, and strode for the gangway. Read the first page
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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
So good, I've bought the series,
This review is from: Tai-Pan: Second novel of the Asian Saga (Paperback)
I first read Shogun because of an interest in all things Japanese. Having liked Clavell's writing style so much, I decided to read more of his books. I wasn't disappointed. Tai-Pan is even better than Shogun. The characterisation is excellent and makes you love a character who is essentially a bit of a pirate. Now hooked on the fortunes of the Struan Company, I have to read the complete set.Death and damnation to Tyler Brock and all his descendants!!!
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Tai-Pan: Second novel of the Asian Saga (Paperback)
Tai-Pan tells the true story of the largest trading company in Asia, and how he succeceded in making Hong Kong British.The story itself cannot be summarised, I have never read a book with so much attention to detail. Dozens of subplots, Deadly Intrique,Manipulation,Sex,Politics,War,rivalries. Just an all round Epic which evryone must read! Clavell creates rich characters which you will remember for many a year, Straun,Orlov and Quance stand out. He mixes Drama with Action, Action with Humor,etc and sub-plots which seem impossibly entwined.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wow! Even better than Shogun!,
This review is from: Tai-Pan: Second novel of the Asian Saga (Paperback)
Initially when I picked up this book I expected to be slightly disappointed as I believed there was no way it could measure up to the awesome Shogun by the same author. How wrong I was! If anything this is even better and is a more rounded story featuring an ending, something which Clavell in Shogun seemed to forget to write.Dirk Struan is a neatly nuanced hero and the wily Brock along with his betsial son Gorth make compelling brutish enemies. Tai-Pan is the kind of historical novel which does not deserve the scorn that is often poured on the genre. Quite simply, adventure storytelling at its best.
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