She Was a Queen: Historical Novel

By Maurice Collis

Book Overview

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081121169X
• ISBN13: 9780811211697
• Release Date: June 1991
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 301 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Palace intrigues in medieval Burma

Collis is also a great story-teller, taking the reader into a mysterious oriental court, with its intrigues and conspiracies: a scheming chief minister, a decadent young ruler and a strong-willed woman, desperately trying to hold a desintegrating country together.Although originally written in 1937, the book of Pwa Saw can now also be read as an analogy of Aung San Suy Kyi's current-day battle with the ruling junta: two amazing women struggling through a crucial period in their country's history.