Pickthall William Marmaduke

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A Question of Precedence: and other Middle East Stories by Marmaduke PickthallPaperback, 25 November 2017

A Question of Precedence: and other Middle East Stories by Marmaduke Pickthall
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Part of Series
Pickthall Novel
Print Length
364 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Beacon Books
Date Published
25 Nov 2017
ISBN-10
1912356023
ISBN-13
9781912356027

Description

Pickthall is a wonderful storyteller. He brings us straight into the narrative, with sharply drawn personalities, dealing with dilemmas to which we can relate. He builds a picture of the physical environment - buildings, flowers, the landscape - that is convincing. His central characters may be rogues and cheats, religious fanatics, bandits or hypocrites, but they are all drawn as the result of acute observation. We see the world from the perspective of an Egyptian soldier, a Syrian peasant, an Ottoman official.

His use of language is remarkable. In his Middle East fiction, novels and stories, he uses an archaic English, comprehensible but unfamiliar. It is as if the world he is reproducing is alien, and needs to be clothed in words and phrases that take the reader right away from his or her world.

The lands in which Pickthall's stories are set, have since his time, undergone changes that have been violent and unprecedented. Wars, revolutions, displacement and emigration, voluntary and forced, have been the lot of Syrians, Palestinians, Egyptians and Turks since Pickthall's time. These people are the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the men and women among whom Pickthall travelled, whom he loved and whose lives he has reconstructed for our enlight- enment and delight.

Product Details

Author:
Pickthall William Marmaduke
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
25 November 2017
Dimensions:
22.86 x 15.24 x 2.06 cm
ISBN-10:
1912356023
ISBN-13:
9781912356027
Language:
English
Pages:
364
Publisher:
Weight:
530.7 gm

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