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4 unusual facts about Arthur Phillips


Arthur Phillips

The main story is set in 1922 and follows a hopeful explorer who, working near Howard Carter (the man who discovered the tomb of King Tutankhamun), risks more and more of his life and savings on an apparently quixotic effort to find the tomb of an apocryphal Egyptian king.

Manhattan Hungarian Network

The organization has presented notable artists such as Hungarian pop singer Gábor Presser, soprano of the Hungarian State Opera, Ildikó Iván, novelist Arthur Phillips, novelist and poet Gabor Gorgey and journalist Adam LeBor.

The Tragedy of Arthur

The Most Excellent and Tragical Historie of Arthur, King of Britain (more widely known as The Tragedy of Arthur) is a play, believed to have been written by William Shakespeare, uncovered in 2010 by Arthur Phillips.

The Tragedy of Arthur (2011) is an acclaimed novel written by Minnesotan writer Arthur Phillips, author of Prague and The Song is You.


Juliet, Naked

Lev Grossman compared it with another 2009 novel – The Song Is You by Arthur Phillips – and called it "an example of what you might call iPod lit,...novels that meditate on the paradoxical mixture of intimacy and estrangement that arises from listening to digitally recorded music, or really from any human interaction mediated by the Internet."


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