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...when he died in 1931 he left behind him, in some 5,000 handwritten pages, a bulk of secret work which might have sweated the remotest of recluses. Even as reduced to portable size by his daughter Sylvia, Islandia runs to 1,013 pages. It is a strange, absorbing book...
...ISLANDIA-Austin Tappan Wright-Farrar & Rinehart...
...work entirely of the imagination, Islandia is the most thorough piece of "escape" reading available for this summer. It is perhaps the most sustained and detailed daydream that has ever seen print. And its chief interest (of which the author seems to have been scarcely conscious) is as a psychological document. In these thousands of hours of purloined time, Professor Wright was not himself-or was more himself than Professor Wright was. He was a young Harvard graduate named John Lang, and the year was 1907, and a rich uncle had secured him the first U.S. consulship in Islandia...