Pilate
The Biography of an Invented Man
$43.30
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
7 April 2000
Summary
Anne Wroe’s extraordinary and compelling biography of a very elusive figure.
Although very little is known for certain about Pontius Pilate, the man who crucified Christ, this has not stopped writers in every age from imagining his life. In this extraordinary book, Ann Wroe recounts the lives of all our Pilates; among them the glittering medieval tyrant, devoted to gambling and getting around the law, and the wriggling modern pragmatist, whose dilemma over Jesus has been described as …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099287933 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099287935 |
| Author: | Ann Wroe |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 7 April 2000 |
| Weight: | 288g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 25mm |
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Critics Review
The touch of a master novelist… Few have ever explored so imaginatively, or with such passionate attention to detail’ * Sunday Telegraph *Because so little is known, it is possible to speculate endlessly. If one’s mind is a brilliant engine of speculation like Wroe’s, then one is dazzlingly equipped to do so. Her book is excellent and discloses an intense imaginative sympathy, a lyricism, and a fine-tuned psychological perception * Daily Express *Wroe is a creative, even a beautiful writer… It is a wonderfully enjoyable, rich, generous book – A.N.Wilson * Daily Mail *Extraordinary and compelling – Victoria Glendinning * Daily Telegraph *She manages always to keep Pilate living and breathing in the text, and occasionally kicking and screaming * Independent on Sunday *
About The Author
Ann Wroe
Ann Wroe is the Obituaries editor of The Economist, and has written its weekly obituary for almost two decades. She is the author of eight previous works of non-fiction, including biographies of Pontius Pilate, Perkin Warbeck, Shelley, Orpheus and St Francis. She lives in Brighton and London.
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