The Evening of the World - Brossura

Massie, Allan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0753813106 ISBN 13: 9780753813102

Casa editrice: Phoenix, 2002

Riassunto

THE EVENING OF THE WORLD is set in the period of the barbarian invasions. Its hero is a young Roman nobleman named Marcus. He undergoes extraordinary experiences as he searches for meaning and stability in a twilight world where the old gods are dead or dying, but their mysteries still attract, and the new religion is threatened by new barbarisms. Marcus¿s journeys take him over the empire, from Italy to Greece and Byzantium, to the camp of Alaric the Goth and the wastes of the northern forests, from a Christian monastery to the horde of Attila the Hun. His is a world where everything is possible and nothing solid, a world that is full of danger and mystery, of love and terror, of simple faith and abstruse philosophy, of cruelty, strange perversions, treachery and undaunted courage.

Su questo libro

Descrizione del libro:

First novel in the Dark Ages trilogy reissued to coincide with first paperback publication of Arthur the King

L'autore:

Allan Massie is the author of seventeen highly praised novels, as well as non-fiction works on Muriel Spark, a study of twelve emperors of ancient Rome, a history of crime in 19th-century Edinburgh and the acclaimed Glasgow: Portraits of a City. Born in Singapore in 1938, he was brought up in Aberdeenshire and educated at Glenalmond School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read history. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has been a judge of the Booker Prize. He is also a journalist contributing to the Scottish and English press. He is married, has three children and lives in the Scottish Borders.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Phoenix
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0753813106
• ISBN 13: 9780753813102
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 304