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Dates: during 1974-1974
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Otherwise, The Ebony Tower is a book as lovely as its dust jacket???Pisanello's Portrait of a Lady. The retold tale of Eliduc, a 12th century Celtic romance, charmingly repeats the story of a knight torn between his love for a princess and his loyalty to his wife. A story called Poor Koko tells of a sort of casual Marxist burglar who amiably loots the guesthouse where a pedantic writer is staying, then, like a Manson of letters, coolly destroys the writer's notes and manuscript for a book about Thomas Love Peacock, a 19th century writer of burlesque...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shimmering Perversity | 12/2/1974 | See Source »

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