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English electric lightning by the wild swans on spotify. Blending the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history, wild swans has become a bestselling classic in thirty languages, with more, isbn 9780743246989 buy the wild swans ebook. Vincent millay and jung chang this study guide consists of approximately 49 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of wild swans. The wild swans english electric lightning 2009, file. Wild swans by jung chang jung chang is supposedly one of the most successful chinese authors. Vincent millay was born in rockland, maine, on february 22, 1892.
I first heard about wild swans several years ago but never got around until reading it until now. I do have quite a few books by chinese authors but would like to read more autobiographies from pretty much any period. The forces of history and the exceptional talents of this young writer combine to produce a work of nonfiction with the breadth and drama of the richest, most memorable fiction classics. Author bio birthmarch 25, 1952 whereyibin, sichuan province, china educationph. Check out english electric lightning by the wild swans on amazon music. This book is also deeply philosophical and her assessments can be applied to many current situations in. Ostensibly it is about a princess who rescues her eleven brothers from a spell cast by an evil queen. China and its civilization is one the oldest in the world. Blending the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history, wild swans has become a bestselling classic in thirty languages, with more than ten million copies sold.
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Wild swans i did enjoy the book it was a smooth read and very articulately written by jung chang. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. First published in 1991, wild swans contains the biographies of her grandmother and her mother, then finally her own autobiography. The original incarnation of the wild swans lasted until 1982, issuing one single. Find books like wild swans from the worlds largest community of readers. Its a story of the authors grandmother, her mother and about herself during the twentieth century china.
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