“It has been a long time since I read the novel ( The Fall of Constantinople ) by Maria Lampadaridou Pothou, yet I am still under the spell of that reading. My critical remarks are a long-owed honor to the author for this very significant literary feat.
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Before undertaking the composition of a prose creation on this grand scale, M.L.P was very familiar the prescriptions set forth by Sir Walter Scott for the writing of a historical novel… She succeeds in recreating the epic climate of that deadly clash between two worlds.”
Karolos MITSAKIS
University professor of literature; in the journal “Nea Hestia”, June, 15, 1998