Han Suyin

A Many Splendoured Thing


Published in London by Jonathan Cape in 1952

First Edition, First Impression

Near Fine Condition Overall! Please refer to the images

Original Hard Binding with Dust Jacket

Pages 384

20,5cm x 14cm

Rare Find in Such Condition


A Many-Splendoured Thing is a novel by Han Suyin that was a bestseller upon publication in London in 1952 by Jonathan Cape.
The book was made into the 1955 film Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, which inspired a popular eponymous song. In her 1980 autobiographical work, My House Has Two Doors, Suyin evinced no interest in watching the film even in Singapore, where it ran for several months. Her motive in selling the film rights was to pay for an operation in England for her adopted daughter who had pulmonary tuberculosis.
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