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'Arcadian Nights is a brilliant, riveting book that leaves its competitors behind, blinking into the distance, as surely as Theseus left Ariadne' TLS
Sitting on the terrace of his house in Arcadia on the coast of the Peloponnese, the award-winning playwright and novelist John Spurling reimagines the stories of Apollo, Herakles, Theseus, Perseus and Agamemnon, and the gods, demi-gods, monsters and humans who shaped their destinies.
Ancient as they are, the Greek myths as refined by Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus and the great Greek dramatists still resonate at the core of our literature and culture, and may well reveal more about human nature and the world in which we live than reality can ever do. Yet they are less familiar to us today than they once were, or should be, and Arcadian Nights is a vibrant, gripping and spirited interpretation of these timeless tales for both those who have never heard them before, and those who wish to bring them back to mind.
John Spurling is the author of the novels The Ten Thousand Things (winner of the 2015 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction), The Ragged End, After Zenda and A Book of Liszts. He is also a prolific playwright whose plays have been performed on television, radio and stage, including at the National Theatre and the author of two critical books on Graham Greene's novels and Samuel Beckett's plays (with John Fletcher). He has been a frequent reviewer for newspapers, magazines and BBC Radio, and was for twelve years the art critic of the New Statesman. He lives in London and Arcadia, Greece, and is married to the biographer Hilary Spurling.
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- PublisherGerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 0715651129
- ISBN 13 9780715651124
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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