Spartacus - Brossura

Gibbon, Lewis Grassic

Brossura

ISBN 10: 184391509X ISBN 13: 9781843915096

Casa editrice: Hesperus Pr, 2014

Riassunto

The original landmark story of the gladiator Spartacus, a masterpiece of vivid storytelling full of adventure, suspense, cruelty, and romantic intrigue

Rome, 73 BC. Kleon, a Greek slave, wakes early, cuts his master's throat, and flees south by a back road, clutching a copy of Plato's Republic. His destination is Capua, where he hopes to join the burgeoning rebel army of Spartacus, an escaped gladiator. So begins the definitive telling of one of the most famous stories in history. Spartacus and his companions, having defeated every Roman force sent against them, are plundering the countryside and gathering to their ranks thousands of fugitives, brigands, and itinerants. They seek to create a new world, one where men are not owner and owned. But they must first escape Italy, and the vengeful Roman legions already marshalling against them. Brutal and uncompromising in its depiction of the ancient world, Spartacus masterfully evokes the violence, hope, and despair of the war that shook Rome to its very foundations.

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A vivid story, packed with the wild hopes, the doomed dreams, the cruelty and licentiousness of the time. --Evening Standard

It would be impossible to overestimate Lewis Grassic Gibbon's importance . . . A Scot's Quair is a landmark work; it permeates the Scottish literary consciousness and colours all subsequent writing of its kind. --David Kerr Cameron

L'autore:

Lewis Grassic Gibbon was the nom de plume of James Leslie Mitchell (1901–1935). The Mearns trilogy, A Scots Quair, is his most renowned work, and has become a landmark in Scottish literature.

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• Editore: Hesperus Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 184391509X
• ISBN 13: 9781843915096
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 239