Olivia Fraser

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Olivia Fraser is a profoundly dyslexic author of high fantasy. She uses Dragon Professional 16 to dictate her writings, and uses ClaroRead to proofread her work.
The cute star beside her is called Stella.

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The Way of Edan by Philip   Chase
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This book has the charm of the classic fantasy greats, brilliantly juxtaposed with the sharpness of realism seen in the modern fantasy favourites. Dr Chase has created a secondary world full of fascinating layers of history and culture, and an exciti ...more
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Russian Folk Belief by Linda J. Ivanits
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The Song of Igor’s Campaign by Vladimir Nabokov
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I do like Vladimir Nabokov’s translation. His footnotes are very good, though Nabokov does not always reference which chronicle he got his facts from. The book also includes an excellent map and a condensed family tree. While my preference is for Leo ...more
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The Tale of the Armament of Igor by Leonard Arthur Magnus
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This is the first translation of the Igor poem that I ever read, and it is the one I keep coming back to. I am very grateful to Leonard A. Magnus for providing the Old Russian text alongside his translation. His footnotes, though useful, can be diffi ...more
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The Russian Primary Chronicle by Samuel Hazzard Cross
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I have been using this book continually for the past ten years and still find it to be invaluable. If you are studying Kievan Rus’ either as a scholar or for interest, get yourself a copy, now!
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Medieval Russia's Epics, Chronicles, and Tales by Serge A. Zenkovsky
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This book gets 5 stars from me just for providing an English translation of The Zadonshchina. The inclusion of another translation of the Igor poem is invaluable, as is The Descent of the Virgin into Hell (not least for the reference to the Slavic pa ...more
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The Nature of Russia by John Massey Stewart
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