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1 1 y separately published work icon The Insane Root : A Romance of a Strange Country Rosa Praed , London : T. Fisher Unwin , 1902 Z172183 1902 single work novel

The novel begins:

'In the Abarian Embassy in London, Isàdas Pacha lay sick unto death. He was an old man, and upon several previous occasions when he had been stricken by illness it was thought that he could not recover. Nevertheless, when newspapers and Cabinets were speculating upon his probable successor, he had invariably risen up from his bed and had again handled the reins, continuing to transact the duties of Ambassador to the Court of St James's entrusted to him by his Imperial master...'
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