Anthony Arthur

If you like books about writers and also like a good old-fashioned feud then you'll like this one. The book is well-researched and presented. Could use a few ladies.
Read here if you like any of the following writers:
Mark Twain*
Bret Harte*
Ernest Hemingway*
Gertrude Stein*
Sinclair Lewis
Theodore Dreiser*
Edmund Wilson
Vladimir Nabokov
C. P. Snow
F R. Leavis
Lillian Hellman
Mary McCarthy
Truman Capote*
Gore Vidal
Thomas Wolfe
Norman Mailer
John Irving*
Sherwood Anderson
*Authors I've read… (plus d'informations)

I wouldn't know an Anabaptist from a Baptist, although Anna Baptist will be my drag queen name. The Tailor King helped make the distinction between Anabaptists and the rest somewhat clearer and to be honest this atheist found the Anabaptist creed rather uncontroversial. Of course, 21st Century Australia is rather different to medieval Europe in the age of Luther and anything against the grain ecumenically was stamped out with great haste.

Which brings us to the city of Munster and the Anabaptists who take the city and attempt to transform it into utopia, with rather mixed results. Arthur kept me engaged throughout the Tailor King and it turns out I enjoyed this foray into medieval politics, even when the inevitable dictatorial Tailor King of Munster turned out worse than the Catholics.… (plus d'informations)