The Dream Of Scipio
$47.77
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2003
Summary
Dark, erudite and utterly compelling, The Dream of Scipio confirms Iain Pears as one of Britain’s most imaginative novelists.
Set in Provence at three different critical moments of Western Civilisation—the collapse of the Roman Empire in the fifth century, the Black Death in the fourteenth, and the Second World War in the twentieth—The Dream of Scipio follows the fortunes of three men: Manlius Hippomanes, a Gallic aristocrat obsessed with the preservation of Roman ci…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099284581 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099284588 |
| Author: | Iain Pears |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2003 |
| Weight: | 277g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
Irresistibly seizes the imagination
Irresistibly seizes the imagination * Evening Standard *
Combining the visceral pleasures of a thriller with the more intellectual excitements of a novel of ideas… Beautifully constructed…never less than engrossing * Sunday Telegraph *
Vivid, admirably imagined, ultimately very moving…This is a novel of the very highest ambition…immediate, sensuous, beautiful – Alan Massie * Scotsman *
Combines dazzling erudition with assured narrative skills to offer glimpses of some of history’s darkest corners, and stark and timely challenges to the very notions of civilisation and progress * Independent on Sunday *
A dazzling hall of mirrors… Ferociously ambitious… Illumined by a fizzing passion for the recondite * Daily Telegraph *
Iain Pears
Iain Pears was born in Coventry in 1955. Educated at Wadham College, Oxford, he has worked as a journalist, an art historian and a television consultant. He is the author of several highly praised detective novels, a book of art history, countless articles on artistic, financial and historical subjects, An Instance of the Fingerpost and Stone’s Fall.
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