Just started Colditz by Ben Macintyre. I had it for Christmas 2022 but only now got round to reading it!
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Originally posted by Belgrove View PostEvery decade or so I re-read Robert Irwin’s Arabian Nightmare in the vain hope of disentangling the real from the dream worlds it creates, and fail. ... Irwin is a specialist of Arabian literature and has written a scholarly tome on The Thousand and One Nights, which is clearly a model for the novel’s nested dreamscapes.
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Originally posted by Belgrove View PostEvery decade or so I re-read Robert Irwin’s Arabian Nightmare in the vain hope of disentangling the real from the dream worlds it creates, and fail.
I had an 'Arabian Nights' period when I was based in the Middle East - Robert Irwin's The Arabian Nights : A Companion was invaluable
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Originally posted by Belgrove View PostSad to learn that Irwin died earlier this year.
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Originally posted by Petrushka View PostJust started Colditz by Ben Macintyre. I had it for Christmas 2022 but only now got round to reading it!"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
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Originally posted by groovydavidii View PostPercival Everett’s novel ”Erasure,” a hilarious plot, narrated at an acerbic witty pitch. Now a major film–“American Fiction.”
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