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  • Anna and the King of Siam

  • The Book That Inspired the Musical and Film 'The King and I'
  • By: Margaret Landon
  • Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
  • Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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Anna and the King of Siam

By: Margaret Landon
Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
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Publisher's Summary

Audie Award Nominee, Inspirational Nonfiction, 2013

Anna Leonowens, a proper Englishwoman, was an unlikely candidate to change the course of Siamese (Thai) history. A young widow and mother, her services were engaged in the 1860's by King Mongkut of Siam to help him communicate with foreign governments and be the tutor to his children and favored concubines. Stepping off the steamer from London, Anna found herself in an exotic land she could have only dreamed. It was a lush landscape of mystic faiths and curious people, and king's palace bustling with royal pageantry, ancient custom, and harems. One of her pupils, the young prince Chulalongkorn, was particularly influenced by Leonowens and her Western ideals. He learned about Abraham Lincoln and the tenets of democracy from her, and years later he would become Siam's most progressive king. He guided the country's transformation from a feudal state to a modern society, abolishing slavery and making many other radical reforms.

Weaving meticulously researched facts with beautifully imagined scenes, Margret Landon recreates an unforgettable portrait of life in a forgotten exotic land. Written more than fifty years ago, and translated into dozens of languages, Anna and the King of Siam (the inspiration for the magical play and film The King and I) continues to delight and enchant readers around the world.

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A reflection of the era

This was an interesting book based in Thailand in the 1860s. It was written in the late 1940s and has the moralistic and judgemental tone of the era. If you can gloss over that, the story is really quite fascinating of the influence of a foreigner on the King of Thailand. This is not nonfiction but a fictitious story based in fact and as such, character details and other details should be taken with a grain of salt. I was not overly fond of the narrator who gave the Siamese speakers an Indian accent which irritated me. Overall, an interesting work of historical fiction that has been well researched.

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