Volume 22, Number 14 · September 18, 1975
Divine Wind
By D.J. Enright
Shogun: A Novel of Japan
by James Clavell
Atheneum, 803 pp., $12.50
The Nobility of Failure: Tragic Heroes in the History of Japan
by Ivan Morris
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 500 pp., $17.95
But perhaps Ben Jonson's judgment doesn't apply to books. At all events, here are two that bear witness to their authors' sheer pertinacity, dedication, and stamina—qualities which, the books themselves seem otherwise to imply, are not commonly to be found in Occidentals.
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