NOBLE HOUSE
by JAMES CLAVELL
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 034025954X
- ISBN 13
- 9780340259542
- Seller
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Foster, Rhode Island, United States
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Synopsis
Noble House is a novel by James Clavell, published in 1981 and set in Hong Kong in 1963. It is part of Clavell's Asian Saga. It is a massive book, well over 1000 pages, with dozens of characters and numerous intermingling plot lines. In 1988, it was adapted as a television miniseries for NBC starring Pierce Brosnan. The miniseries updates the storyline of the novel to the 1980s. The Noble House also is a nickname of Struan's, the trading company featured prominently in most of Clavell's novels.
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- Bookseller
- Lavendier Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU1041104
- Title
- NOBLE HOUSE
- Author
- JAMES CLAVELL
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First British Edition
- ISBN 10
- 034025954X
- ISBN 13
- 9780340259542
- Publisher
- HODDER & STOUGHTON LTD
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1981
- Size
- 6x9x2
- X weight
- 53 oz
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