The Laughter of Carthage: The Second Volume of the Colonel Pyat Quartet by Michael Moorcock, Alan Wall

The Laughter of Carthage: The Second Volume of the Colonel Pyat Quartet

Pyat Quartet / Between the Wars #2

Michael Moorcock, Alan Wall

552 pages first pub 1984 (editions)

fiction fantasy historical adventurous challenging slow-paced
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Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski, or Pyat, that charming but despicable mythomaniac who first appeared in "Byzantium Endures," is back in this second book of the Pyat quartet. Having fled Bolshevik Russia in late 1919, Pyat's progress is a series of l...

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adventurous 100%
challenging 100%
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funny 100%
informative 100%
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