Dream of Scipio

Informationen zum Autor Iain Pears was born in 1955. He is the author of seven detective novels, a book of art history and countless articles on artistic, financial and historical subjects, and five novels, An Instance of the Fingerpost , The Dream of Scipio , The Portrait, Stone's Fall and Arcadia . Klappentext A novel 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. It follows the fortunes of three men, and each man's story is linked by the classical text that gives the book its title. Zusammenfassung A novel 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. It follows the fortunes of three men, and each man's story is linked by the classical text that gives the book its title.

Product details

• Authors: Iain Pears
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.04.2003
• EAN: 9780099284581
• ISBN: 978-0-09-928458-1
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Vintage Paperbacks; Vintage Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Sagas, FICTION / Sagas, France, Generational sagas, Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945)