title: Lehua- Ka'ao a Ka Wahine  The story of  a Woman: A Hawaiian Noblewoman Comes of  Age at a Changing of the Gods. (Volume 1)
author: Gene J. Parola
description: "Descendants" was a George Clooney film that captured the interest of people when it dealt with the concept of land in Hawaii....Clooney should grabGene Parola's new bookand start filming before some other ambitious filmmaker does.
zlib_text: FOUR REIGNS
  (SI PHAENDIN)
  by
  KUKRIT PRAMOJ
  ENGLISH VERSION
  by
  TULACHANDRA
  
  CONTENTS
  Preface
  Pronunciation Guide
  Four Reigns
  Credit page
  
  PREFACE
  There comes a time in a man’s life when he feels the urge to set down in writing the modes and
  mores of a disappearing age, of which he was a part, however small. I had this urge when I sat
  down to write this book in Thai over thirty years ago.
  It was merely an urge with no inspiration, no forethought and no plot in mind. Phloi, the so-
  called heroine of the story, just left home to enter the Grand Palace. This was a natural act for a
  young girl of her position at that time. The reason for her departure was also natural: her mother
  was disillusioned with her father and could no longer live with him as happily as she wished.
  After Phloi had been placed in the palace, the recording of events and the way of life of that once
  magical place began. It came naturally day by day, because I wrote the story day by day, just
  enough to fill the columns al