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Excerpt from The Transproser Rehears'd, or the Fifth Act of Mr. Bayes's Play: Being a Postscript to the Animadversions on the Preface to Bishop Bramhall's Vindication, &C., , Shewing What Grounds There Are of Fears and Jealousies of Popery But to go on With our Prologue, (fo the Animadverter Will warrant me now to call the Preface) our Critick hath found a ¿aw init, and what's that It has no Tlot. How, a Prologue without 1 Plot! It is im pofi...

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Grey Magic is a work of great scope and stylistic virtuosity, combining antic humor with immense sophistication, an Anglo-American setting with an Anglo-European sensibility and a profound insight into contemporary issues of both personal and collective resonance. It is also an account of a would-be sorcerer's aspirations to 'Fausthood', a passionate love story and a tale of revenge exacted through a curse. Like its author, the narrator and pr...

The title, My Bermuda Books, suggests a travel book, doesn't it? In one sense, perhaps, it is a travel book, but of the author's mind - an interior journey, therefore. Humorous, controversial, passionate, satirical and thoughtful, My Bermuda Books can be seen as an oblique continuation of Harris's memoir The Days of Our Vanity. Woven throughout this miscellany are autobiographical threads, plus his extended quasi Desert Island Discs style sele...