The Golden Fleece

Author:   Robert Graves ,  Dan-el Padilla Peralta
Publisher:   Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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9781609807672


Pages:   544
Publication Date:   16 April 2019
Format:   Paperback
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Along with I, Claudius, The Golden Fleece is considered one of Robert Graves's most exciting and transporting historical novels. The Golden Fleece was at one time the most sacred religious object of the ancient Greeks, and had been sent away as the result of a power struggle between the Greeks and earlier inhabitants of the Greek peninsula. In this the original quest narrative, Jason leads a voyage of heroes, including his friend Hercules and many others, in his ship the Argo, to recapture the sacred Golden Fleece and bring it home. To do so he must travel across the whole of the ancient world, perform impossible tasks, and undergo betrayals and tragedies beyond comprehension or human endurance. Poet, translator, memoirist, novelist, classicist Robert Graves stands alone for his ability to bring to modern readers the great stories of the ancient world with all their vividness and gore and power intact. As he has shown in many of his 140 published works, his facility with ancient myths and his understanding of how they still inform our imaginative lives helps make The Golden Fleece feel as fresh and necessary today as it did the first time someone told the story of Jason and the Argonauts some three thousand years ago. Seven Stories' Robert Graves Project spans 14 titles, and includes fiction and nonfiction, adult, young adult and children's books, in a striking new uniform design, with new introductions and afterwords. Among the works still to come are Count Belisarius, Hebrew Myths, and Lawrence and the Arabs. The online partner for the Robert Graves Project is RosettaBooks.

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Author:   Robert Graves ,  Dan-el Padilla Peralta
Publisher:   Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Imprint:   Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.669kg
ISBN:  

9781609807672


ISBN 10:   1609807677
Pages:   544
Publication Date:   16 April 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Robert Graves's The Golden Fleece shows the legendary cruise as one of the bawdiest, bloodiest, most boisterous expeditions of all time. -Time Magazine


“Robert Graves’s The Golden Fleece shows the legendary cruise as one of the bawdiest, bloodiest, most boisterous expeditions of all time.” –Time Magazine


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ROBERT GRAVES (1895-1985) was a preeminent English poet, novelist, critic, translator, and scholar of classical mythology. He served in World War I--an experience recounted in his 1929 autobiography, Good-Bye to All That--and later became the first professor of English literature at the University of Cairo. Best remembered today for his acclaimed historical novels about the Roman emperor Claudius, I, Claudius and Claudius the God, his other books include The White Goddess, The Hebrew Myths, and Collected Poems.

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