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The Next Mariases + Something for the Bibliophiles Out There | Conversational Reading
Also, All Souls has much more of an introvert feeling. In Your Face Tomorrow, Deza was something along the lines of a man of action (befitting the noirish plot), but here his narrative voice is far less so, befitting what is essentially a campus novel. One example:
During my two years of scouting out and hunting down such books with my gloved hands, I obtained many apparently unobtainable marvels at quite ridiculous prices, such as the seventeen volumes of The Thousand Nights and a Night by Sir Richard Francis Burton (better known to booksellers as Captain Burton), which began to appear more than a century ago in a limited edition of a thousand numbered copies of each volume, available only to subscribers of the Burton Club on the understanding (which they honoured) that it would never be enlarged or reprinted: in fact that exuberant Victorian text has never again been reprinted in its entirety, but only in selections or in bowdlerised editions, which, whilst apparently complete, were in fact expurgated of everything considered at the time (or by Lady Burton to be obscene.
That’s from an entire chapter on the used bookstores of Oxford.
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