Black Lamb and Grey Falcon

Part travelogue, part history, part love letter on a 1000-page scale, Rebecca West's Black Lamb & Grey Falcon is a genre-bending masterwork written in elegant prose. But what makes it so unlikely to be confused with any other book of history, politics or culture--with, in fact, any other book--is its unashamed depth of feeling: think The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire crossed with Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. West visited Yugoslavia for the 1st time in 1936. What she saw there affec...

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BonaFides18 ноября 2025 г.
They found, as these have done, that when one door closed on them others that should have been open suddenly were not.
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BonaFides18 ноября 2025 г.
These were good reasons why the Italians should not have Dalmatia, and there were no reasons why they should, for the Italian population was negligible.
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BonaFides18 ноября 2025 г.
Here nothing matters except the Croat-Serb situation. And that, I own, never seems to get any further.
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