The Bad Boy of Athens - Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones

Informationen zum Autor Daniel Mendelsohn is a prize-winning writer and critic. His books include the international best seller The Lost, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and many others; a memoir, The Elusive Embrace, a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year; a translation, with commentary, of the complete poems of C. P. Cavafy, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year; and two collections of essays. He lives in the Hudson Valley of New York. Klappentext 'Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace ... He writes about things so clearly they come to feel like some of the most important things you have ever been told.' Sebastian Barry Zusammenfassung ‘Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace … He writes about things so clearly they come to feel like some of the most important things you have ever been told.’ Sebastian Barry

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Mendelsohn, Mendelsohn Daniel
• Publisher: William Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9780008245122
• ISBN: 978-0-00-824512-2
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book; Cultural Studies, Performing Arts, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, HISTORY / Civilization, LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, 21st Century, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Film, TV & radio, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory