More properly: The Writings of Jan Chryzostom Pasek, a Squire of the Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania edited, translated, with an introduction and notes by Catherine S. Leach because a title appropriate to the era is important. If Sir John Falstaff walked off of Shakespeare’s stage and wrote his memoirs, they would read a lot …
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Sep 16 2023
Memoirs of the Polish Baroque by Jan Chryzostom Pasek
- By Doug Merrill in Autobiography, Doug, Eastern Europe, Fabulous Ones, History
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September 16, 2023
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May 01 2017
Tales of the Squee
- By Doug Merrill in Coming Attractions, Doug, Lists, Short Takes
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May 1, 2017
The height of my to-be-read pile could be measured in years, if the books could somehow fit into a unified pile. And that doesn’t count a particular moving box in the basement, in which some really good books, or at least some really interesting-looking books are awaiting their turn to come upstairs. (Some of them …
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