Seven Days in New Crete

Edward Venn-Thomas lives in the twentieth century but has been mysteriously transported to the future, and the apparently idyllic society of New Create, where there is no hunger, no war and no dissatisfaction. However Venn-Thomas is starting to find life among the New Cretans rather dull. He comes to realize that their perfect existence, inspired by the poets and magicians of their strange occultic religion, lacks one fundamental thing - evil. So Venn-Thomas sees it as nothing less than his duty to introduce them to the darker side of life. First published in 1949 and also known as Watch the North Wind Rise , Graves's novel is a thrilling blend of utopian fantasy, science fiction and mythology.

About the author

Robert Graves was born in 1895 in Wimbledon. He went from school to the First World War, where he became a captain in the Royal Welch Fusiliers and was seriously wounded at the Battle of the Somme. He wrote his autobiography, Goodbye to All That, in 1929, and it was soon established as a modern classic. He died on 7 December 1985 in Majorca, his home since 1929.

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No one else offers his precise combination of eroticism, nightmare and epigram Guardian

Product details

• Authors: Robert Graves, Robert von Ranke Graves
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 26.01.2012
• EAN: 9780141197678
• ISBN: 978-0-14-119767-8
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 1 mm x 1 mm x 1 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Modern Classics
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature