| | W6: The Dream of Scipio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | Imagine Major Charles Emerson Winchester III from M*A*S*H mocking Hawkeye's choice of a Robert Ludlum thriller and holding up an Iain Pears novel as an example of what he should have picked instead, and you've got the right idea for the kind of book Iain Pears writes. |
 | | However, unlike certain other novels written by Nobel Laureates that try just a little too hard, The Dream Of Scipio is very readable, and may even be better than the author's previous best-known book, An Instance Of The Fingerpost. |
 | | Julien Barneuve is a scholar during the late 1920s through the 1940s, studying the writings of a little-known 14th-century poet named Olivier de Noyen, who in turn was inspired by the philosophical musings of Manlius Hippomanes (422-486), collected and written under the borrowed title The Dream Of Scipio. |
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