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Original Essays | December 12, 2009

Alexander McCall Smith: IMG The Courage of Others



I have recently written a novel about life in England during the Second World War. I felt some concern before I tackled this theme — the War... Continue »
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    La's Orchestra Saves the World

    Alexander McCall Smith

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Allegedly first published in 1828, this delightful book is sub-titled Scenes in the Harem of an Eastern Potentate. The original title page then goes on to describe the book as '...faithfully and vividly depicting in a Series of Letters from a Young and Beautiful English Lady to her cousin in England, the full particulars of her Ravishment, of her complete abandonment to all the Salacious Tastes of the Turks, described with zest and Simplicity which always gives guarantee for its authenticity.'

Emily Barlow is captured by Moorish corsairs and falls into the hands – and the bed – of the Dey of Algiers. In a series of letters to her cousin Sylvia, which soon became less pitiful, she describes her adventures to her shocked relative, and in a surprise ending we leave her harbouring great ambitions.

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