Rebecca West

This is a follow-up to my earlier review of Rebecca West‘s immense travel book about the former Yugoslavia, “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon,” which I left out for space reasons. The book is notoriously long, and as it happens, Rebecca West also included a lengthy aside on book size and portability that stands as a [...]

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“In two almost incredibly full-packed volumes, one of the most gifted and searching of modern English novelists and critics has produced not only the magnification and intensification of the travel book form, but, one may say, its apotheosis.” Thus the New York Times, via Wikipedia, on Rebecca West‘s “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon,” published in [...]

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