Imperial Woman.
by Buck, Pearl
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- BINDING/CONDITION: rust colored cloth; the top edge tint is turquoise; a Very Good book, with a Good dust jacket.
- Seller
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Oroville, California, United States
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Synopsis
Imperial Woman is a novel by Pearl S. Buck first published in 1956. Imperial Woman is a fictionalized biography of Ci-xi (Tz'u Hsi in Wade-Giles), who was a concubine of the Xianfeng Emperor and on his death became the de facto head of the Qing Dynasty until her death in 1908 (before which the novel ends). The story of Tzu Hsi is the story of the last Empress in China. In the novel Nobel Prize winner Pearl S.
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- Seller
- The Bookworm (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 068293
- Title
- Imperial Woman.
- Author
- Buck, Pearl
- Format/Binding
- Hardbound
- Book Condition
- Used - BINDING/CONDITION: rust colored cloth; the top edge tint is turquoise; a Very Good book, with a Good dust jacket.
- Edition
- Book Club Edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Day Company
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1956.
- Pages
- 346 pages.
- Size
- 8vo (8.5 inches tall)
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