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Most people, including Edgar Lee Masters himself, thought the name of the town Spoon River was an original creation of the author of "Spoon River Anthology." ![]() ![]() ![]() Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. At times terrifying, at times astonishing, always deeply moving, ‘Wild Swans’ is a book in a million, a true story with all the passion and grandeur of a great novel. Through the story of three generations of women – grandmother, mother and daughter – ‘Wild Swans’ tells nothing less than the whole tumultuous history of China’s tragic twentieth century, from sword-bearing warlords to Chairman Mao, from the Manchu Empire to the Cultural Revolution. Not only did it become the best-selling non-fiction book in British publishing history, with sales of well over two million, it was received with unanimous critical acclaim, and was named the winner of the 1992 NCR Book Award and the 1993 British Book of the Year Award.įew books have ever had such an impact on their readers. The publication of ‘Wild Swans’ in 1991 was a worldwide phenomenon. One of the best-selling and best-loved books of recent years, ‘Wild Swans’ is an epic true story of how one family lived and survived through some of China’s most unsettling and violent times. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Between each chapter is a page or two of related, gross facts revealing, for example, the bizarre fates of Einstein's brain and Galileo's fingers and the outrageous things coroners keep as souvenirs. The accounts of how people ill or injured were treated by doctors through the 18th century reveal that medical practices were usually more lethal than the maladies. 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