A Choice of Murder
by Vansittart, Peter
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/As New
- ISBN 10
- 0720608325
- ISBN 13
- 9780720608328
- Seller
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STREETSVILLE, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: Peter Owen, 1992 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st UK Edition.. '. a sophisticated, thought-provoking historical novel, set in ancient Greece and Sicily. The protagonist is fourth-century B.C. soldier and political leader Timoleon of Syracuse, who liberated that city from the control of Carthage. Keeping dialogue to a minimum, Vansittart delves into Timo's life and career, supplying a political motive for his murder of his older brother, sketching his wanderings in exile and his induction into the Eleusinian mysteries, then depicting his triumphant return to his native Corinth. Vansittart does a credible job of resurrecting an almost forgotten statesman and in elucidating the idea of ``Hellas''--a loose group of independent but culturally related city-states--which found its last champion in Timo; an ancient way of life died with him. A fine meditation on Western civilization at an early crossroads." As New . except for inked stamp of bookstore on endpaper..
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Details
- Bookseller
- KALAMOS BOOKS (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 044483
- Title
- A Choice of Murder
- Author
- Vansittart, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Edition
- 1st UK Edition.
- ISBN 10
- 0720608325
- ISBN 13
- 9780720608328
- Publisher
- Peter Owen
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- SICILY ANCIENT GREECE IN FICTION TIMOLEON
- Bookseller catalogs
- Greece in Fiction - Ancient; Sicily;
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