@booklet {3144, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Five Letters from an Eastern Empire giving Information upon architecture, etiquette, irrigation, ventriloquism, justice, sex and poems in an Obsolete country{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Words (Fife, Scot.)}, volume = {no. 8}, year = {1979}, note = {

Slightly rev. as \“Five Letters From an Eastern Empire: Describing Etiquette, Government, Irrigation, Education, Clogs, Kites, Rumour, Poetry, Justice, Massage, Town-Planning, Sex and Ventriloquism in an Obsolete Nation.\” Illus. by the author\ in his Unlikely Stories, Mostly (Edinburgh, Scot.: Canongate, 1983), 85-113; rpt. (London: Penguin, 1984), 85-113; and in his Every Short Story, 1952-2012 (Edinburgh, Scot.: Canongate, 2012), 91-133.

}, month = {[1979]}, pages = {2-15}, abstract = {

Dystopian oriental tale with a puppet as an emperor and an authoritarian government.

}, keywords = {Male author, Scottish author}, author = {Alasdair [James] Gray (1934-2019)} }