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There was no patriotism in the trenches. It was too remote a sentiment, and rejected as fit only for civilians. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out. As Blighty, Great Britain was a quiet, easy place to get back to ou...Daugiau...
In Homers Daughter Robert Graves recreates the Odyssey. This bold retelling of the ancient epic imagines that its author was not the blind and bearded Homer of legend, but a young woman in Western Sicily who calls herself Nausicaä. In Robert Graves...Daugiau...
Edward Venn-Thomas, recently arrived from the 20th century, finds life among the New Cretans rather dull. Their idyllic existence lacks one important thing - evil. So Venn-Thomas sees it as his duty to introduce the darker side of life. Edwar...Daugiau...
Robert Graves first came across the name of Roger Lamb in 1914, when Graves was an English officer instructing his platoon in regimental history. Lamb was a British soldier who had served his king during the American War of Independence, and whose cl...Daugiau...
Robert Gravess controversial historical novel is a bold reworking of the story of Christ. Here Jesus is not the son of God, but the result of a secret marriage - the descendant of Herod and true King of the Jews. Written from the perspective of a lo...Daugiau...
In order to reclaim his fathers kingdom, Jason has been sent on an impossible mission - to take the golden rams fleece that lies far away, guarded by a dragon. Jason, who is so attractive that women fall instantly in love with him, sets sail in the...Daugiau...
Marie Powell is 16 when her father marries her to the poet John Milton in payment of a debt. She struggles to adjust to her new life. As civil war sweeps across England and the king is killed, a battle starts to rage between husband and wife: one tha...Daugiau...
A collection of stories. The ever-popular novelist and story-teller Robert Graves wrote fascinating and durable stories, here collected together in a single volume for the first time by the poets daughter Lucia Graves....Daugiau...
The sixth century was not a peaceful time for the Roman empire. Invaders threatened on all fronties, but they grew to respect and fear the name of Belisarius, the Emperor Justinians greatest general. This book demonstrates the authors command of an...Daugiau...
Despised for his weakness and regarded by his family as little more than a stammering fool, the nobleman Claudius quietly survives the intrigues, bloody purges and mounting cruelty of the imperial Roman dynasties....Daugiau...
Claudius has survived the murderous intrigues of his predecessors to become, reluctantly, Emperor of Rome. This book recounts his surprisingly successful reign: how he cultivates the loyalty of the army and the common people to repair the damage caus...Daugiau...
Graves created a rich mythology where love, fear, fantasy and the supernatural play an essential role. Intimate yet universal, passionate yet precise, their brilliant alchemy of realism and magic made Graves poems some of the finest. This book prese...Daugiau...
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Robert Gravess poetry centres around the tension between the practical impossibility and the transcendent miracle of love between a man and a woman. Surrounding the central theme is a mythology in which the White Goddess (the muse who inspires...Daugiau...
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Claudius the stammerer made it his business to watch from the sidelines and record the antics of the imperial households. Here, in this fictionalized biography, Claudius records the intrigue, lusts, perversions and bloodshed of the Imperial Roman hou...Daugiau...
In 1929 the author went to live abroad permanently, vowing never to make England my home again. This book is an account of his life up until that bitter leave-taking: from his childhood and desperately unhappy school days at Charterhouse, to his...Daugiau...
