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Noble house: A Novel of Contemporary Hong Kong
by Clavell, James
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- UsedGood
- ISBN 10
- 0440064562
- ISBN 13
- 9780440064565
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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
- Books4Cause Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5D4W940009CG_ns
- Title
- Noble house: A Novel of Contemporary Hong Kong
- Author
- Clavell, James
- Book Condition
- UsedGood
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0440064562
- ISBN 13
- 9780440064565
- Publisher
- Delacorte Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1981
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- Cocked
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