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This is a roman à clé by Jacob Arnauti, a novelist who used his book to try to define his relationship with his wife, Justine, a woman with many lovers, a complex sexuality, and an even more complex personality. The city of Alexandria itself looms as…

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This is a series of exquisite poems in the Pre-Raphaelite manner. It was first noted in A.S. Byatt’s Possession, in which are portrayed two young contemporary Scholars, he studying Randolph Henry Ash, the Victorian poet, she Christabel LaMotte. The…

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A volume of passionate love poems from the first Man to the first Woman (per the Norse mythos). These seventeen poems, written mostly in unrhymed iambic pentameter, represent some of the oddest (and, some would say, of the finest) work of the period.…

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Chain of Command is Youngblood Hawke’s great novel of World War II. Unfortunately, it was a work of which he became eventually ashamed, finally coming to think it inferior, shallow, and embarrassing, and wrong about the validity of the war. It went,…

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This book was Trapnel’s great success. It is famously said that the novel encapsulates the author’s central metaphor for life. He derived this trope from a street cry he heard as an impressionable child, that of a Bedouin camel driver advertising…

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The result of a certain amount of confusion at a printer’s establishment, this copy of Bazakbal’s interesting work actually contains a different novel, Leaning from the Steep Slope, a Cimmerian novel by Ukko Ahti.

Bazakbal’s novel is itself often…

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This romance novel is often attributed to a Mr. Bertram Wooster, but it was written by Ms. Banks in 1920 while she was working as a waitress at the Senior Liberal Club in St. James. Mentioned in Wodehouse’s “Bingo and the Little Woman.” By the end…

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Two books by a pair of contemporaries, together evoking “more of natural magic, more of British woodland glamour, more of the sheer joy of life than anything since ‘As You Like It’.” The books, appearing in the same year (1895) were a season’s wonder…
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