27 NOVEMBER 1999, page 52

An Orchard You Can Take On Your Lap

Philip Hensher NIGHT AND HORSES AND THE DESERT by Robert Irwin Penguin, £25, pp. 462 T his is called 'an anthology' of classical Arabic literature, but I don't quite know why.......

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