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This is a 5 star book for me.
I've just finished reading this book, which I started on January 1st 2015. It's been a long, but worthwhile, haul (45 chapters long)! I have been reading it as a group read in a Goodreads group; we have been reading each chapter and then choosing our own sidereads to go alongside each chapter.
I thought it was excellent up to the end of the 19th century, maybe even up to the 1930s. I was much less interested in the final 10 chapters, probably because I know much more ...more
I've just finished reading this book, which I started on January 1st 2015. It's been a long, but worthwhile, haul (45 chapters long)! I have been reading it as a group read in a Goodreads group; we have been reading each chapter and then choosing our own sidereads to go alongside each chapter.
I thought it was excellent up to the end of the 19th century, maybe even up to the 1930s. I was much less interested in the final 10 chapters, probably because I know much more ...more

I will be taking my time reading through this and falling down the rabbit hole that is reading the other books Schmidt references. Because I have too much time on my hands.
So I will update this review as I go, listing the books as I complete them and linking to my review so I can find them all in one place someday down the line.
Completed!:
Chapter 1: "Literature is Invention"
-The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, Sir John Mandeville (trans. C.W.R.D. Moseley)
Chapter 2: True Stories
-Le Morte d'Arthur ...more
So I will update this review as I go, listing the books as I complete them and linking to my review so I can find them all in one place someday down the line.
Completed!:
Chapter 1: "Literature is Invention"
-The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, Sir John Mandeville (trans. C.W.R.D. Moseley)
Chapter 2: True Stories
-Le Morte d'Arthur ...more

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