Imaginary Conversations


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Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.




Imaginary Conversations


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Imaginary Conversations


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"Imaginary Conversations" by Walter Savage Landor is a collection of literary dialogues that imagines conversations between historical figures, mythological characters, and fictional personalities. Through these imaginative exchanges, Landor explores a wide range of topics, including politics, philosophy, literature, and morality. Each conversation offers insight into the personalities and beliefs of the characters involved, as well as the historical and cultural context in which they lived. Landor's vivid storytelling and rich language bring the characters to life, inviting readers to engage with timeless questions and ideas. "Imaginary Conversations" is a testament to Landor's creativity and intellect, offering a unique glimpse into the minds of some of history's most influential figures.




Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A Selection


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This captivating book contains a unique mix of dialogues and poems. The dialogues are fictional conversations between historical figures, such as Queen Elizabeth and Cecil, Essex and Spenser, Diogenes and Plato, Dante and Beatrice, and even Oliver Cromwell and Sir Oliver Cromwell. The poems cover a range of topics and include titles like 'Fiesole Idyl', 'To Charles Dickens', and 'The Lover'.




Gods Behaving Badly


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A highly entertaining novel set in North London, where the Greek gods have been living in obscurity since the seventeenth century. Being immortal isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Life’s hard for a Greek god in the twenty-first century: nobody believes in you any more, even your own family doesn’t respect you, and you’re stuck in a dilapidated hovel in North London with too many siblings and not enough hot water. But for Artemis (goddess of hunting, professional dog walker), Aphrodite (goddess of beauty, telephone sex operator) and Apollo (god of the sun, TV psychic) there’s no way out... until a meek cleaner and her would-be boyfriend come into their lives and turn the world upside down. Gods Behaving Badly is that rare thing, a charming, funny, utterly original novel that satisfies the head and the heart.




Yeats, Philosophy, and the Occult


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Yeats, Philosophy, and the Occult collects seven new essays on aspects of Yeats's thought and reading, from ancient and modern philosophy and cosmological doctrines, mysticism and esoteric thought.







The Talmud and the Internet


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Examining the contradictions of his inheritance as a modern American and a Jew, the author blends memoir, religious history, and literary reflection while exploring the parallel between a page of the Talmud and the home page of a Web site, and reflects on the contrasting deaths of his American and European grandmothers.




Landor's Tower, Or, The Imaginary Conversations


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A London writer comes to recognise his growing obsession with the Ewyas Valley on the border of England and Wales. Ewyas has been the site of persistent attempts to found or imagine utopian communities, all fascinated by the mythology of the west: Anglican renegade Father Ignatius, hippie communes, Allen Ginsberg, Bruce Chatwin, teepee dwellers, mushroom gobblers, narco pirates.