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King Rat by James Clavell.
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Critical Essay by Granville Hicks
["King Rat"] is quite unmistakably bad and yet might, one feels, conceivably have been good….
[This] is a novel about the inhabitants of a Japane...
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Critical Essay by Martin Levin
James Clavell's blockbuster of a first novel, "King Rat,"… presents an age-old dilemma against the background of a Japanese prison campȂ...
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Critical Essay by Orville Prescott
[Many] of the most popular contemporary novelists are storytellers. Some of them produce such crude works that they don't seem worth discussion in this space....
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Critical Essay by Time
In his bestselling first novel King Rat, James Clavell may have been only clearing his throat for [Tai-Pan], which seems every bit as long as it is. Its narrative pace is numbin...
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Survival of the Fittest
"The world is a jungle, and only the strong survived and the weak should die. It was you or the other guy" (Clavell 11). In James Clavell's novel King Rat the central the...
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Teaching King Rat
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King Rat Lesson Plans contain 139 pages of teaching material, including:
Critical Essay by Granville Hicks
Survival of the Fittest
