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2 unusual facts about The Arab's Mouth


Belle Moral

A substantial reworking of MacDonald's earlier play, The Arab's Mouth, Belle Moral is a gothic comedy set in Scotland in 1899.

The Arab's Mouth

First staged at the Factory Theatre in Toronto, MacDonald lightly revised the play for publication, at which point it was staged at Theatre Kingston in Kingston, Ontario.


Cowie Bridge

Cowie Bridge is a roadway bridge across the Cowie Water in Stonehaven, Scotland near the river's mouth at the North Sea.

Shiva Naipaul

He then decided to concentrate on journalism, and wrote two non-fiction works, North of South (1978) and Black & White (1980), before returning to the novel form in the 1980s with Love and Death in a Hot Country (1983), a departure from his two earlier comic novels set in Trinidad, as well as a collection of fiction and non-fiction, Beyond the Dragon's Mouth: Stories and Pieces (1984).


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