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+**Visions of Lucian 3: Remarks Addressed to an Illiterate Book-Fancier / In Spite of Your Art: A Word with Lucian**\\
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+**Caption:** By 175AD the literary satirist Lucian of Samosata was at the peak of his powers. He was wealthy, famous, wildly popular, and — we may assume — contented. Until, that is, he made the acquaintance of a fellow Assyrian in Athens possessed of a remarkable collection of books. Lucian’s disgust on discovering that these books were less for reading than for show resulted in him composing, and then publishing, a poison pen letter so vicious that it stands as a blot on even his rogue’s legacy.
+Today we know that letter as Remarks Addressed to an Illiterate Book-Fancier. In this new tête-bêche edition, Nicholas Jeeves first reproduces the Remarks in full, and in the companion piece In Spite of Your Art, goes on to interrupt Lucian’s afterlife to address him with a few choice remarks of his own…
+Order from eBay: [[https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Visions-of-Lucian-3-Remarks-Addressed-editioned-chapbook/164061243420|Multia Small Edition, Remarks Addressed to an Illiterate Book-Fancier / In Spite of Your Art: A Word with Lucian by Lucian of Samosata and Nicholas Jeeves]]
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