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John Spurling
Books in Order: 6 titles
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Arcadian Days
A bold and dynamic retelling of five great male-female pairings from the Greek myths: Prometheus and Pandora, Jason and Medea, Oedipus and Antigone, Achilles and Thetis, and Odysseus and Penelope.Award-winning historical novelist and playwright John ...
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Arcadian Nights: The Greek Myths Reimagined
The vibrant retelling of the central Greek myths by acclaimed novelist John Spurling The classical Greek intellectual tradition pervades nearly every aspect of our modern Western civilization. Our logic and science, our philosophy, politics, liter...
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The Ten Thousand Things
In the turbulent final years of the Yuan Dynasty, Wang Meng is a low-level bureaucrat, employed by the government of Mongol conquerors established by the Kublai Khan. Though he wonders about his own complicity wit this regime--the Mongols, after all,...
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A Book of Liszts: Variations on the Theme of Franz Liszt
The extraordinary career of Franz Liszt (1811 -- 86) as a composer, conductor, and virtuoso pianist -- whose incomparable skill and personal charisma dazzled audiences all over Europe, from London and Paris to Berlin, Moscow, and even Constantinop...
