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Tag: mediaeval literature

The Tale of Genji

On June 25, 2021June 25, 2021 By Andrew G LockhartIn Book Review, Books, Japan, Women in History1 Comment

by Murasaki Shikibu English translation by Arthur Waley ‘At the court of an emperor (he lived it matters not when) there was among the many gentlewomen of the Wardrobe and Chamber one, though she was not of very high rank was favored far beyond all the rest.’   For a reader in the West, The …

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Dan's Hymn to Dante

On September 26, 2014 By Andrew G LockhartIn Books, Writing and Publishing4 Comments

Inferno by Dan Brown In his latest novel, Dan Brown sends his unlikely hero, Harvard professor Robert Langdon on a romp round Florence. Accompanied by Sienna Brooks, a young doctor with an IQ of 208, Langdon embarks on a quest to find and destroy a deadly virus. Planted by a misguided idealist Bertrand Zobrist, the …

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