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In fact, I would not be composing this account of one of his more bizarre activities were it not for the present controversy in what is, so to speak, the wrong field, and for which, though no one but myself knows it, Müller bears the responsibility. Even so, I think I would be content to remain silently amused if it were not for a niggling professional scruple about authenticity. My stint as a museum curator in the early 1950s-short and sweet as it was-has left me with a heightened sensitivity to every kind of swindle, intentional or otherwise. And a swindle is what this forthcoming German edition of Epictetus' Encheiridion is, only the confidence-artist responsible for it has been dead nearly forty years.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67905887404255,"sku":"9789363543379","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ZIpNYYeF-B9789363543379.webp?v=1790967184"},{"product_id":"the-artist-wears-rough-clothing-paperback","title":"The Artist Wears Rough Clothing - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese tales will take you into the lives of characters you will long remember: -a peasant boy in war-torn Sui China survives a perilous journey and finds his vocation as a poet -an American novelist is invited to the European city he has never visited but in which he sets all his books. -a coed seduces the conductor of a German orchestra then is trapped with both in the middle of a Middle Eastern war. -an elderly Frenchwoman is interviewed about her time as a model for two famous modernists In the title story, dream and memory unveil the profound tale of a persecuted Chinese artist and his Americanized daughter.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67915577393375,"sku":"9780991107476","price":21.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/MCKjzSb5DI9780991107476.webp?v=1791021214"},{"product_id":"may-hill-paperback","title":"May Hill - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When Sarah Sala was eleven years old her parents took her to the Cheltenham Festival in Gloucestershire. Though it was March, damp and chilly, Sarah insisted that they climb May Hill. Her mother, who felt a cold coming on and wanted to attend a piano recital, declined, but her well-read father was all for it. As they began the ascent, he recited a verse from Ivor Gurney: May Hill that Gloucester dwellers 'gainst every sunset see. Sarah said she liked the rhythm but there was something odd about it. Her scholarly father, a lecturer in Romance Languages, had the knack of being droll and pedantic at once. He told Sarah the oddity was because of Gurney's outlandish sentence structure. \"It's Teutonic because you have to wait so long for the verb.\" His own family was Italian, not German. Sarah's Sala grandparents had emigrated from Milan before the war. Her other grandparents, the Jewish Blumfelds, were also an immigrant family. They arrived two generations before the Salas. 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