Bulbul in Search of a Religion by Anonymous
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Bulbul in Search of a Religion by Anonymous
Published: C. W. Daniel, London 1905
Condition: Good. Original green cloth, with title in gold on front board and spine. An ex-library book, from the Edinburgh Lodge of the Theosophical Society. Binding is firm, pages are clean and unmarked, apart from a library stamp on the title page.
This anonymous novel follows a Persian prince who travels to England to examine Christianity, critiquing its various traditions, Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism and Calvinism. Offering an outsider’s view of religion in Edwardian England, the tone is satirical and philosophical. It was reviewed in the Spectator in August 1905.
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