PART ONE OF THE TROY QUARTETBringing ancient myth to life with passion, humour, and humanity, Lindsay Clarke vividly retells the story of Troy and of the heroes who fought there.
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PART ONE OF THE TROY QUARTETBringing ancient myth to life with passion, humour, and humanity, Lindsay Clarke vividly retells the story of Troy and of the heroes who fought there.
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PART ONE OF THE TROY QUARTET
Bringing ancient myth to life with passion, humour, and humanity, Lindsay Clarke vividly retells the story of Troy and of the heroes who fought there.
When the mortal Paris settles a contest between the gods, he is promised the love of Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world.
But Helen is already married, to the powerful Menelaus of Sparta, and the kings of many cities have sworn to defend their union. Paris’s divine gift threatens to set his world aflame.
‘An engaging retelling of the whole story, neatly blending mythic archaism with modern psychodrama and satire’
Mary Beard
1 – A PRINCE OF TROY
2 – THE WAR AT TROY
3 – THE SPOILS OF TROY
4 – THE RETURN FROM TROY
Critic Reviews
“'An engaging retelling of the whole story, neatly blending mythic archaism with modern psychodrama and satire' Mary Beard, GUARDIAN 'I'm awed by the web you've spun. Not only the beautiful complexities of it but the fine texture of the threads' Ted Hughes 'A triumph of retelling the ancient story...a readable and freshened version that keeps one turning the pages' Alan Sillitoe 'Wonderfully clear and dramatic' OBSERVER 'Expertly handled, drawing on the best of this classic tale and shaping it into a riveting page-turner well-suited to our times' DAILY MAIL”
‘An engaging retelling of the whole story, neatly blending mythic archaism with modern psychodrama and satire’
Mary Beard, GUARDIAN
‘I’m awed by the web you’ve spun. Not only the beautiful complexities of it but the fine texture of the threads’
Ted Hughes
‘A triumph of retelling the ancient story…a readable and freshened version that keeps one turning the pages’
Alan Sillitoe
‘Wonderfully clear and dramatic’
OBSERVER
‘Expertly handled, drawing on the best of this classic tale and shaping it into a riveting page-turner well-suited to our times’
DAILY MAIL
About the Author
Lindsay Clarke is one of Britain’s best known modern novelists. He is author of The Chymical Wedding, and won the Whitbread Prize for literature in 1989. He works extensively with mythology and legend in both his writings and in workshops in the UK and abroad.
PART ONE OF THE TROY QUARTET Bringing ancient myth to life with passion, humour, and humanity, Lindsay Clarke vividly retells the story of Troy and of the heroes who fought there. When the mortal Paris settles a contest between the gods, he is promised the love of Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world. But Helen is already married, to the powerful Menelaus of Sparta, and the kings of many cities have sworn to defend their union. Paris's divine gift threatens to set his world aflame. 'An engaging retelling of the whole story, neatly blending mythic archaism with modern psychodrama and satire' Mary Beard 1 - A PRINCE OF TROY 2 - THE WAR AT TROY 3 - THE SPOILS OF TROY 4 - THE RETURN FROM TROY
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