Reviews for The Evolution of Law: A Historical Review, Based Upon the Author's Commentaries On the Evolu...

The average rating for The Evolution of Law: A Historical Review, Based Upon the Author's Commentaries On the Evolu... based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-06-30 00:00:00 Dennis Cox I wrote this book so maybe I shouldn't be reviewing it. The poems in the book were written in my early to mid twenties. They deal with three broken relationships, one failed engagement and two lost children. I pulled myself out of a five year drinking binge and barely made it. Compiling this book helped me to move on from tragedies I had formally ran from. It was no great commercial success. It sold about 100 copies in seven years. It is now out of print. In all I made about $20 in royalties. But my life back was the true paycheck. If anyone comes across a copy I hope you read a few lines. Let know what you think.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-01-27 00:00:00 David Albonesi An odd book, and not a completely successful one. I cannot deny it a wealth of ironic observation and an elegant style, but I believe the author indulges his hobbies and obsessions--his Orientalism, his ephebophilia, his loathing of his mother and other termagants--to an extent that distorts this tale of sensuality, pride and and destruction instead of informing and enriching it. The last twenty pages or so, however, that relate Prince Vathek's damnation in the underground realm of the angel Eblis, are powerful and memorable, and very influential on the development of the gothic sensibility in writers as different as Poe and Hawthorne. All readers who care about the development of literature should read these last twenty pages, but in my opinion they could just as well skip most of the rest.