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The Orissers

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Myers’s first novel, The Orissers (1922), marked him as an author of distinction. His next novel, The Clio (1925), reflected the then-fashionable ideas of Aldous Huxley. His major work, an Indian tetralogy set in the late 16th century at the time of Akbar the Great, consists of The…
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