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    <body><![CDATA[I wanted to use this in my book group but felt it may be too challenging, since there is a lot of Elizabethan English that will need definitions.  However, I began it again last night and it is quite amusing.  <br/><br/>Ok, so I stopped reading this and I will be frank:  too much blatant homosexua...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62625548">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A poignant, atmospheric novel about the last days of the playwright Christopher Marlowe, who was killed in a brawl in a tavern in Deptford, probably assassinated in connection with spying activities. Burgess's language is rich and evocative as usual and nuanced to the Elizabethan style, and transpor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77298189">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I took this book with me to Costa Rica in 1996- it was one of the only english books available to me for a long time, and it tookk forever to get through. I remember it being pretty dry. But it will always be memorable because it took so long to read.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this when I was living in digs in Deptford. Simply brilliant. Turns out Marlowe's final resting place was behind my digs. Always liked this book.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Wish I could remember this better.  I do recall it as being quite good even if I did read back in the Tower days.  <br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An excellent biographical novel about Christopher Marlowe, though containg about 300% more buggery than I usually look for in a historical novel.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Burgess’s final novel is a lovingly crafted account of Kit Marlowe’s life and death.  Written in a period style, he had trouble getting this novel published.  But his love for his subject is ever apparent, bringing tears to this reader and an appreciation for the man ever in Shakespeare’s shad...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21259450">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Anthony Burgess is a Fantastic writer, and this is his take on the life and final days of Christopher Marlowe. Prior to reading this book, I knew of Marlowe only as an Elizabethan Playwrite mentioned in English Literature classes. This book however, shows Marlowe to have been a man of great interest...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4950522">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Burgess really brings the times to life, and his Marlowe is captivating.  A very good novel not fully appreciated, I suspect.  One of the best Elizabethan historical novels I've read.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A fictional account of the life of Christopher Marlowe.  Not for the faint-hearted.  It is graphic and also written in a slight dialect that it takes a while to get used to.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The plot is loose and lacking in urgency, but the setting, language, themes and characterisation of Kit are very juicy and evocative.    ]]></body>
    
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