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He authored more than forty books of fiction and nonfiction, including the pulitzer prizewinning tales of the south pacific, the bestselling novels the source, hawaii, alaska, chesapeake, centennial, texas, caribbean, and caravans, and the memoir the world is my home. Tales of the south pacific james a michener book descriptions. Sep 12, 1984 i love the musicals and south pacific by rogers and hammerstein was one of he first ones i ever saw. Discussion of themes and motifs in james micheners tales of the south pacific. Michener 19071997 was one of the worlds most popular writers.
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A native of arkansas, the character of nellie first appears in micheners book tales of the south pacific, which was published in 1947. The tales are told by a young naval officer whose duties on an admirals staff take him up and down the islands. The tale upon which the broadway musical south pacific is based explores the people and beauty of the pacifics coral islands as seen though the eyes of a young naval lieutenent. Sep 10, 20 free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project.
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Michener winner of the pulitzer prize for drama and the tony for best musical, south pacific flourished as the golden musical of broadways postwwii. It won the pulitzer prize for fiction in 1948, and rodgers and hammerstein adapted it as the hit broadway musical south pacific, which premiered on broadway in new york city in 1949. Free download or read online tales of the south pacific pdf epub book. Tales of the south pacific is a pulitzer prize winning collection of sequentially related short stories about world war ii, written by james a.
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