The Towers of Trebizond (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Rose Macaulay
- First Published: 1956
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The mid-1950’s
- Setting: Primarily Turkey and its environs
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: 1950’s, Traveling or travelers, Voyages, Sin or Original sin, Religion, Feminism, Adultery, Truth, Death or dying, Good and evil, Ethics, Middle East, Turkey or Turkish people
- Locales: Turkey
Characters Discussed
Laurie, the protagonist, the niece of Dorothea ffoulkes-Corbett. Both her name and her outlook (independent and tomboyish, with a zest for adventure and a love of solitude) keep her androgynous; no details of age or appearance are revealed. She narrates the adventures of the traveling party that includes Aunt Dot, Father Hugh Chantry-Pigg, herself, and, later, Dr. Halide Tanpinar and Xenophon. Enlisted by Aunt Dot as a sort of companion-cum-secretary on a trip to the Middle East, Laurie agrees to illustrate and contribute to the book about Turkey that her...
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