Lady Wu - A Novel by Lin Yutang (1965).pdf

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Cody
Wu
a
novel
by
LIN
This
novel
is
YUTANG
based
on
the
fascinating
life
and
often
incredible
of
Lady
Wu,
the
cruel
and
pleasure-loving
queen
who
created
an empire
of
unparalleled
des-
potism
in
seventh-century
China.
Lady
Wu
was
a
unique
character
who
in-
combined
criminality
with
enormous
telligence.
Her
ambitions
reached
cool,
precise
truly
maniacal
proportions,
but
her
methods
were
always
and
eminently
sane.
Utilizing
charm
and
a
series
of
atrocious
murders,
she
rose
from
ob-
scurity
to
become
"Female
Emperor/'
Lady
Wu
retained
her
amazing
vitality
death
at
the
age
of
eighty-three,
until
her
and
was
notorious
for
maintaining
a
harem
of
paramours
known
as
the
"Stork
Institute."
But
although
she
was
responsible
for
a
reign
of
terror
and
po-
litical
purges
on
a
scale
unequaled
until
our
day,
she
was
adored
by
her
subjects
for
her
beauty
and
intelligence.
This
story
of
an
ambitious
and
ruth-
less
woman
with
her
love
for
pageantry,
her
political
intriguing
and
her
amorous
enthusiasms
and
skill
come
to
knowledge
that
Lin
Yutang's
readers
have
expect
and
admire.
is
told
with
the
jacket
design
/Jeanyee
Wong
G.
P.
PUTNAM'S SONS
NEW
YORK
tynth
'0
Digitized
by
the
Internet
Archive
in
2012
http://archive.org/details/ladywunovelOOIiny
LADY
WU

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