In 1975, Clavell published Shogun, his magnum opus that took the literary critics by storm. New York Times book reviewer Webster Schott wrote, “Clavell has a gift, he breathes narrative; his hero is not a person but a place and a time, medieval Japan on the threshold of becoming a sea power”...

Europenii si Asia In secolul XIX-lea , lumea asiatica a fost nevoita sa se deschida influentelor europene , reactionand diferit in fata unui Occident cuceritor ,novator si purtator de progres. Cazurile Indiei , Chinei si Japoniei au fost tipice pentru maniera in care s-a manifestat actiunea...

Obligata, la mijlocul secolului XIX, sa puna capat izolarii pe care si-o impuse, Japonia s-a adaptat usor la lumea industriala moderna.Insa, dupa ce a devenit o mare putere, Japonia a recurs la un militarism agresiv, care s-a sfarsit dezastruos. Condusa de oameni puternici militari, shogunii,...

Shogun de James Clavell
“ Shogun” este primul roman scris de James Clavell. Actiunea se petrece in jurul anului 1600, cu doar cateva luni inainte de crunta batalie de la Sekigahara, si prezinta in accensiunea lui Toragana pentru Sogunat. Shogunul in vechea Japonie detinea in primul...

When people think about Dracula and Transylvania, a fear filled their minds. Dracula was born in November of 1431 in Transylvania (Romania). His given name was Vlad, and during his lifetime, his enemies named him Dracula. It was derived from drac, a Romanian word that can be interpreted as...

Great Expectations as a bildungsroman, Great Expectations presents the growth and development of a single character, Philip Pirrip, better known to himself and to the world as Pip. As the focus of the bildungsroman, Pip is by far the most important character in Great Expectations: he is both the...

The narrator introduces himself as Robinson Crusoe. He was born in 1632 in the city of York to a good family. His father is a foreigner who made money in merchandise before settling to down and marrying his mother, whose surname is Robinson. His true last name is Kreutznaer, but has been...

Frankenstein opens with a preface, signed by Mary Shelley but commonly supposed to have been written by her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley. It states that the novel was begun during a summer vacation in the Swiss Alps, when unseasonably rainy weather and nights spent reading German ghost stories...