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A Boswell of Baghdad; With Diversions
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By E. V. Lucas 30 Mar, 2021
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Excerpt from A Boswell of Baghdad What indeed I particularly like about the book is the picture that it gives of sardonic pleasantry and intellectual and sophisticated virtuosity going quietly on side by side with all the splendours and barbarities ... Read more
Excerpt from A Boswell of Baghdad What indeed I particularly like about the book is the picture that it gives of sardonic pleasantry and intellectual and sophisticated virtuosity going quietly on side by side with all the splendours and barbarities of absolute autocracy and summary jurisdiction. It throws a new or unaccustomed light on those days. Not even yet - not even in Bloomsbury, where the poets meet-have we in England anything quite like it; whereas when Baghdad and Damascus were the theatres of these poetical and hair splitting competitions our ancestors had but just got the woad off. Less
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E. V. Lucas
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Edward Verrall Lucas, CH (11/12 June 1868 – 26 June 1938) was an English humorist, essayist, playwright, biographer, publisher, poet, novelist, short story writer and editor. Born to a Quaker fam...
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