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Hieroglyphic Tales

Horace Walpole

Book Overview: 

Surreal and satirical, these stories by the eighteenth century man of letters, Whig politician, art historian and antiquarian are '"...mere whimsical trifles, written chiefly for private entertainment, and for private amusement... an attempt to vary the stale and beaten class of stories and novels, which, though works of invention, are almost always devoid of imagination.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .There was a time when in Italy the learned carried this still farther; and a man with a large forehead, who was born on the fifth of January, called himself Quintus Januarius Fronto. More and more absurd, said the emperor. You seem to have a great deal of impertinent knowledge about a great many impertinent people; but proceed in your story: whence came you? Mynheer, said she, I was born in Holland—The deuce you was, said the emperor, and where is that? It was no where, replied the princess, spritelily, till my countrymen gained it from the sea—Indeed, moppet! said his majesty; and pray who were your countrymen, before you had any country? Your majesty asks a vey shrewd question, said she, which I cannot resolve on a sudden; but I will step home to my library, and consult five or six thousand volumes of modern history, an hundred or two dictionaries, and an abridgment of geography in forty volumes in folio, and be back in an instant. Not so fast, my life, said. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Aunque el non-sense literario suele ser identificado con la Inglaterra decimonónica (Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear) o el surrealismo francés, estos Cuentos jeróglíficos son un delicioso antecedente de esas obras literarias que cuestionan el realismo literario y las unidades aristotélicas. Aún más que l

Son sözde de belirtildiği gibi hak ettiklerinden fazla değer verilmemiş kısa masallar.

It was the word Hieroglyphic that caught my eye and made to want to read this book. I've always been fascinated by anything Egypt.

It was a short collection of Fairy Tales and I will echo other reviews and call it "surreal" because that is the best description I have seen for what this book is.

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İlginç politik satirlerle dolu kısa öyküler derlemesi... İlk hikaye oldukça ilginç ama anlayabilmek için Walpole zamanının bilgilerine hakim olmak lazım

“Estava a nação neste estado de distracção quando chegou ao reino o príncipe de Quifferiquiminim, que teria sido o maior herói daquela época se não estivesse já morto, se fosse conhecedor de qualquer outra língua que não o egípcio e se não se desse o acaso de ter três pernas.
- O Rei e Suas Três Fil

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