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it doesnt take her long to recognise that a grotesque antique painting recently uncovered on one of the colleges walls might hold the key to the colleges future

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The Magician of Samarkand A. S. Byatt it doesnt take her longA smashing, fun, exciting adventure of good against evil in the rich and colourful setting of ancient India. Anahita is the beautiful, gentle daughter of the town's master saddlemaker. She and her family are poor but happy. Everyone loves her but the Prince particularly so, though both of them know that a match can never be she is poor and he a King's son. Anahita's happy life is disrupted when an evil, greedy magician moves into the town. He falls in