The English Governess At The Siamese Court

Author : Anna Leonowens
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 1429040149
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English Governess at the Siamese Court written by Anna Leonowens and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2009-08-19 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Such was Chow Phya Sri Sury Wongse when I was first presented to him: a natural king among the dusky forms that surrounded him, the actual ruler of that semi- barbarous realm, and the prime contriver of its arbitrary policy. Black, but comely, robust, and vigorous, neck short and thick, nose large and nostrils wide, eyes inquisitive and penetrating, his was the massive brain proper to an intellect deliberate and systematic. Well found in the best idioms of his native tongue, he expressed strong, discriminative thoughts in words at once accurate and abundant. His only vanity was his English, with which he so interlarded his native speech, as often to impart the effect of levity to ideas that, in themselves, were grave, judicious, and impressive.

Author : Anna Harriette Leonowens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English Governess at the Siamese Court written by Anna Harriette Leonowens and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anna Harriette Leonowens
Publisher : Scholarly Pub Office Univ of
ISBN 13 : 9781418131265
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English Governess at the Siamese Court written by Anna Harriette Leonowens and published by Scholarly Pub Office Univ of. This book was released on 2001-10-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With illustrations from photographs presented to the author by the King of Siam.

Author : Anna Leonowens
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 1429040157
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Romance of the Harem written by Anna Leonowens and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1873 Edition.

Author : Margaret Landon
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 150403855X
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anna and the King of Siam written by Margaret Landon and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the incredible true story of one woman’s journey to the exotic world of nineteenth-century Siam, the riveting novel that inspired The King and I. In 1862, recently widowed and with two small children to support, British schoolteacher Anna Leonowens agrees to serve as governess to the children of King Mongkut of Siam (present-day Thailand), unaware that her years in the royal palace will change not only her own life, but also the future of a nation. Her relationship with King Mongkut, famously portrayed by Yul Brynner in the classic film The King and I, is complicated from the start, pitting two headstrong personalities against each other: While the king favors tradition, Anna embraces change. As governess, Anna often finds herself at cross-purposes, marveling at the foreign customs, fascinating people, and striking landscape of the kingdom and its harems, while simultaneously trying to influence her pupils—especially young Prince Chulalongkorn—with her Western ideals and values. Years later, as king, this very influence leads Chulalongkorn to abolish slavery in Siam and introduce democratic reform based on the ideas of freedom and human dignity he first learned from his beloved tutor. This captivating novel brilliantly combines in-depth research—author Margaret Landon drew from Siamese court records and Anna’s own writings—with richly imagined details to create a lush portrait of 1860s Siam. As a Rodgers & Hammerstein Broadway musical and an Academy Award–winning film, the story of Anna and the King of Siam has enchanted millions over the years. It is a gripping tale of cultural differences and shared humanity that invites readers into a vivid and sensory world populated by unforgettable characters.

Author : Alfred Habegger
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299298337
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Masked written by Alfred Habegger and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brave British widow goes to Siam and—by dint of her principled and indomitable character—inspires that despotic nation to abolish slavery and absolute rule: this appealing legend first took shape after the Civil War when Anna Leonowens came to America from Bangkok and succeeded in becoming a celebrity author and lecturer. Three decades after her death, in the 1940s and 1950s, the story would be transformed into a powerful Western myth by Margaret Landon’s best-selling book Anna and the King of Siam and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical The King and I. But who was Leonowens and why did her story take hold? Although it has been known for some time that she was of Anglo-Indian parentage and that her tales about the Siamese court are unreliable, not until now, with the publication of Masked, has there been a deeply researched account of her extraordinary life. Alfred Habegger, an award-winning biographer, draws on the archives of five continents and recent Thai-language scholarship to disclose the complex person behind the mask and the troubling facts behind the myth. He also ponders the curious fit between Leonowens’s compelling fabrications and the New World’s innocent dreams—in particular the dream that democracy can be spread through quick and easy interventions. Exploring the full historic complexity of what it once meant to pass as white, Masked pays close attention to Leonowens’s midlevel origins in British India, her education at a Bombay charity school for Eurasian children, her material and social milieu in Australia and Singapore, the stresses she endured in Bangkok as a working widow, the latent melancholy that often afflicted her, the problematic aspects of her self-invention, and the welcome she found in America, where a circle of elite New England abolitionists who knew nothing about Southeast Asia gave her their uncritical support. Her embellished story would again capture America’s imagination as World War II ended and a newly interventionist United States looked toward Asia. Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians Best Regional Special Interest Boosk, selected by the Public Library Reviewers

Author : Anna Leonowens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781491027394
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English Governess at the Siamese Court written by Anna Leonowens and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic memoir of Leonowens' time spent at the Siamese Court. The English Governess at the Siamese Court (1870) earned her immediate fame but also brought charges of sensationalism. In her writing, she casts a critical eye over court life; the account is not always a flattering one, and has become the subject of controversy in Thailand; she has also been accused of exaggerating her influence with the king.

Author : Anna Harriette Leonowens
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781530698639
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English Governess at the Siamese Court written by Anna Harriette Leonowens and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok

Author : Anna Harriette Leonowens
Publisher : Scholarly Pub Office Univ of
ISBN 13 : 9781425538316
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English Governess at the Siamese Court; Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok, by Anna Harriette Leonowens. with Illustr written by Anna Harriette Leonowens and published by Scholarly Pub Office Univ of. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With illustrations from photographs presented to the author by the King of Siam.

Author : Anna Harriette 1834-1914 Leonowens
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781362201694
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ENGLISH GOVERNESS AT THE SIAME written by Anna Harriette 1834-1914 Leonowens and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.