The Dorothy Dunnett Companion
Morrison, Elspeth
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Here is a lovingly assembled, essential A-Z companion to Dorothy Dunnetts brilliant Lymond Chronicles and the first five novels in the House of Niccolò series.
Elspeth Morrison has re-created the authors exhaustive original research, documenting her myriad sources and literary references. Foreign phrases are translated; poems and quotations presented in full; historical figures and events fleshed out; subtle allusionsand there are manynoted. From the origins of the Arabic drink qahveh to a recipe for quince paste, from the medical uses of ants and alum, to Zacco, Zenobia, and Zoroaster, this easy-to-use A-to-Z reference richly illuminates the intricacies of the complex and far-flung Renaissance world Dorothy Dunnetts creations so colorfully inhabit.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0375725873
ISBN(13-digit): 9780375725876
Copyright: 2001
Dewey Decimal: 823/.914
Library of Congress: 00067407
Book Publisher: Random House Inc
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 415
Paper Weight (lb): 0.8
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