Lord Jeffrey, 79, had the figures at the tip of his fingers when I dialled him in his London home to congratulate him on the 40th anniversary, which will be celebrated on November 26. It’s a wonderful number to have, though, I understand some of it is because of pirated copies.” When I was in India, the papers told me some 50 million people in India have read it. A 100 million people have read Kane and Abel. “It’s now the eleventh most successful novel in history, one behind To Kill A Mockingbird (by Harper Lee), and one ahead of War and Peace (by Leo Tolstoy).
That’s more than the entire population of Malaysia or Peru. On its 121st reprint, the book has sold some 32,700,000 copies. Forty years later, Kane and Abel continues its dream run, selling 2,50,000 copies a year. Kane and Abel sold a million copies in the first week itself. “And the whole of my life changed overnight,” Archer recalled. But it sold 3,000 copies in the first year,” the master storyteller told me back in 2011 during our first meeting in Kolkata. “After I wrote Not a Penny More…, I thought, like everyone else who has written a book, that it’s going to be an instant best seller. He sat down and wrote a thriller, Not A Penny More, Not A Penny Less, his very first book. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.In the mid-1970s, Jeffrey Archer was staring at bankruptcy, having lost heavily to a fraudulent investment company. Jeffrey Archer's international bestseller is followed by the enthralling sequel, The Prodigal Daughter. Kane and Abel is the marvellous story, spanning sixty years, of two powerful men linked by an all-consuming hatred, brought together by fate to save. William Lowell Kane and Abel Rosnovski, one the son of a Boston millionaire, the other a penniless Polish immigrant – two men born on the same day on opposite sides of the world, their paths destined to cross in the ruthless struggle to build a fortune.
This exclusive, limited edition is signed by the author and is released to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of one of the most popular books of the twentieth century. Jeffrey Archer's Kane and Abel was a global phenomenon when it was first released, selling over one million copies in its first week of sale, and it has captivated readers worldwide ever since.
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