“Five Letters from an Eastern Empire giving Information upon architecture, etiquette, irrigation, ventriloquism, justice, sex and poems in an Obsolete country”
| Title | “Five Letters from an Eastern Empire giving Information upon architecture, etiquette, irrigation, ventriloquism, justice, sex and poems in an Obsolete country” |
| Year for Search | 1979 |
| Authors | Gray, Alasdair [James](1934-2019) |
| Secondary Title | Words (Fife, Scot.) |
| Volume / Edition | no. 8 |
| Pagination | 2-15 |
| Date Published | [1979] |
| Keywords | Male author, Scottish author |
| Annotation | Dystopian oriental tale with a puppet as an emperor and an authoritarian government. |
| Additional Publishers | 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. |
| Holding Institutions | LLL, O |
| Author Note | Scottish author (1934-2019). |
| Full Text | 1979 Gray, Alasdair [James] (1934-2019). “Five Letters from an Eastern Empire giving Information upon architecture, etiquette, irrigation, ventriloquism, justice, sex and poems in an Obsolete country.” Words (Fife, Scot.), no. 8 ([1979]): 2-15; 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. LLL, O Dystopian oriental tale with a puppet as an emperor and an authoritarian government. Scottish author. |
