Mr Blackwood's Fabularium
Stephen Lycett
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Add to basketSold by PBShop.store US, Wood Dale, IL, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since 7 April 2005
Condition: New
Quantity: 15 available
Add to basketNew Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
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It is 1851. A group of excursionists sets off from Canterbury to see the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park. During the train journey the organiser, Percy Blackwood, invites them to tell stories which he intends to publish anonymously, for unknown to the others he is in serious debt. From the navvy to the lady's companion, from the book binder to the music hall artiste, they all oblige, their stories forming a panorama of Victorian England and offering glimpses into the lives of their tellers. All set off for the Crystal Palace with high hopes, and all are changed, for better or worse, by encountering the technical and engineering miracles of the age.
Stephen writes because it has never occurred to him not to.His father had a small library; he has been an English teacher throughout his working life; and from early childhood has been surrounded by books. He finds it impossible not to emulate what he has read. He believes “If it is true that we are what we eat, it is equally true that we write what we have read.” His reading habits are wide and indiscriminate. He loves diaries and letters, fictions of all periods, but nineteenth century ones especially and Trollope in particular .Among historical novelists he admires Rose Tremain, George Macdonald Fraser, Penelope Fitzgerald and, above all, the now-almost-forgotten Zoe Oldenbourg.
Stephen has written a number of plays, a musical (which has been performed) and a film script(which has been filmed).In recent years he has concentrated on fiction and in particular on trying to revive what he calls ‘portfolio fiction’–a form which probably began with the Odyssey – in which a long narrative emerges out of a series of short ones. Thus Mr Blackwood’s Fabulariumis the story of an excursion to the Great Exhibition of1851 in which all the excursionists tell tales and in so doing create a panorama of the age as well as a large-scale drama in which they all play a part.
For Stephen, writing is as much a tactile activity as an imaginative one. He is unusual among authors in that he writes with a pen or, more usually, with a pencil. He likes to measure progress in the number of sharpenings: an average day contains four, a good one six. He loves the moment when the pencil gets so short you can no longer hold it. Mr Blackwood’s Fabularium consumed a five-pack of Staedtler HBs.
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