Empress Orchid
Min, Anchee, 1957-
Empress Orchid [sound recording] / by Anchee Min. - Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books, cp2004. - 15 sound discs (18 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Compact discs.
Narrated by Alexandra O'Karma.
Unabridged. Seventeen-year-old Orchid belongs to an aristocratic family that has fallen on hard times. Unexpectedly, she is chosen as one of the emperor's lesser concubines. Within the Forbidden City are thousands of women hoping to bear the emperor a son and become his empress. Orchid, determined and resourceful, schemes her way into the royal bed and seduces the emperor. But as the opium trade erodes the might of the Ch'ing dynasty, Orchid find herself at the center of a crumbling nation.
1402574975 : $109.75
C2515 Recorded Books
Cixi, Empress dowager of China, 1835-1908 --Fiction.
Empresses--Fiction.
China--History--Guangxu, 1875-1908--Fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
PS3563.I4614 / E47 2004c
813/.54
Empress Orchid [sound recording] / by Anchee Min. - Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books, cp2004. - 15 sound discs (18 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Compact discs.
Narrated by Alexandra O'Karma.
Unabridged. Seventeen-year-old Orchid belongs to an aristocratic family that has fallen on hard times. Unexpectedly, she is chosen as one of the emperor's lesser concubines. Within the Forbidden City are thousands of women hoping to bear the emperor a son and become his empress. Orchid, determined and resourceful, schemes her way into the royal bed and seduces the emperor. But as the opium trade erodes the might of the Ch'ing dynasty, Orchid find herself at the center of a crumbling nation.
1402574975 : $109.75
C2515 Recorded Books
Cixi, Empress dowager of China, 1835-1908 --Fiction.
Empresses--Fiction.
China--History--Guangxu, 1875-1908--Fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
PS3563.I4614 / E47 2004c
813/.54