Modern Classics Seven Days in New Crete (Penguin Modern Classics)
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (609 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0141197676 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 220 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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No one else offers his precise combination of eroticism, nightmare and epigram Guardian
A Customer said Ian Myles Slater on Robert Graves' Utopia. "Seven Days in New Crete" is the original title (I think) of a book also published as "Watch the North Wind Rise." It first appeared in 19Ian Myles Slater on Robert Graves' Utopia A Customer "Seven Days in New Crete" is the original title (I think) of a book also published as "Watch the North Wind Rise." It first appeared in 1949. The original US edition was by Farrar Straus and Giroux, and there were US paperback printings by Avon Books in the 1960s, under the alternate title. I have not actually seen any later editions. In any version, it is a sort-of-science. 9. The original US edition was by Farrar Straus and Giroux, and there were US paperback printings by Avon Books in the 1960s, under the alternate title. I have not actually seen any later editions. In any version, it is a sort-of-science
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. So Venn-Thomas sees it as nothing less than his duty to introduce them to the darker side of life. 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. 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.
. He died on 7 December 1985 in Majorca, his home since 1929. He wrote his autobiography, Goodbye to All That, in 1929, and it was soon established as a modern classic. 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