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Issue Details: First known date: 1902... 1902 The Insane Root : A Romance of a Strange Country
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The novel begins:

'In the Abarian Embassy in London, Isàdas Pacha lay sick unto death. He was an old man, and upon several previous occasions when he had been stricken by illness it was thought that he could not recover. Nevertheless, when newspapers and Cabinets were speculating upon his probable successor, he had invariably risen up from his bed and had again handled the reins, continuing to transact the duties of Ambassador to the Court of St James's entrusted to him by his Imperial master...'

Notes

  • Epigraph: 'Or have we eaten of the insane root that takes the reason prisoner' (Macbeth)

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New Books Junius , 1902 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Town and Country Journal , 12 April vol. 64 no. 1679 1902; (p. 57)

— Review of The Insane Root : A Romance of a Strange Country Rosa Praed , 1902 single work novel
New Books Junius , 1902 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Town and Country Journal , 12 April vol. 64 no. 1679 1902; (p. 57)

— Review of The Insane Root : A Romance of a Strange Country Rosa Praed , 1902 single work novel
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