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These essays blend travel sketches and reflective meditations that explore how imagination and memory shape perception. Through vivid descriptions of landscapes—oases, deserts, rivers, moonlit gardens—and encounters with ruined cities and ceremonial settings, the writer traces moments of beauty, wonder, and spiritual longing. Essays alternate concrete travel detail with allegorical or dreamlike passages about an unseen world, childhood vision, and the persistence of inner enchantment amid ordinary life. The collection moves between observing external scenes and attending to inward responses, suggesting that everyday places open onto larger meanings when recollection and fancy are engaged.

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Title: The Court of the King, and Other Studies

Author: Margaret Benson

Release date: February 22, 2020 [eBook #61478]
Most recently updated: October 17, 2024

Language: English

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THE COURT OF THE KING


BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

THE SOUL OF A CAT.

THE VENTURE OF RATIONAL FAITH.

CAPITAL LABOUR AND TRADE AND THE OUTLOOK.

SUBJECT TO VANITY.

THE TEMPLE OF MUT IN ASHER. (With J. A. Gourlay.)



THE COURT OF
THE KING

AND OTHER STUDIES

By MARGARET BENSON

T. FISHER UNWIN
LONDON: ADELPHI TERRACE
LEIPSIC: INSELSTRASSE 20


First published, 1913

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