For The Most Beautiful - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0857523147 ISBN 13: 9780857523143

Publisher: Doubleday, 1814

Synopsis

The city of Troy is about to fall. And only two people know how to save it . . .



Three thousand years ago a war took place where legends were born: Achilles, the greatest of the Greeks, and Hector, prince of Troy. Both men were made and destroyed by the war that shook the foundations of the world. But what if there was more to the tale of these heroes than we know? What if there was a secret story, hidden in the pages of Homer? What if there was another, true legend of the Trojan War?


Now the true story of Troy is told for the first time. Krisayis, the ambitious, determined daughter of the High Priest of Troy, and Briseis, loyal and passionate princess of Pedasus, interweave their tales alongside the classic story of the rage of Achilles and the gods of Olympus. What follows is a breathtaking tale of love and revenge, destiny and the determination to save their country as these two brave women, the heroes of the Trojan War and the gods themselves come face to face in an epic battle that will decide the fate of Troy.


For the Most Beautiful tells the compelling, page-turning, timeless legend of the Trojan War - a story full of action, shot through with tragedy and yet soaring with hope.

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About the Author

Born in Brighton and brought up in Suffolk, EMILY HAUSER studied Classics at Cambridge where she was taught by Mary Beard. She then went to Harvard as a Fulbright Scholar and now studies and teaches at Yale, where she is completing her PhD. For the Most Beautiful - the first book in the Golden Apple trilogy - is her debut novel.

Review

"Once in a while something comes along that's so utterly right, so necessary for now, that you wonder why nobody thought of it before. Emily Hauser's stunning debut novel . . . brings ancient Troy wildly, raucously, passionately alive and tells at last the stories of those who really mattered." -- MANDA SCOTT, bestselling author of Boudica and Into the Fire "A feast for the senses, richly described and effortlessly easy to read. It brings to life an ancient world long gone, and in so doing reminds us of the traumas and costs of war, which are sadly still so much a part of our world today." -- MICHAEL SCOTT, presenter of Rome's Invisible City "A delight from start to finish. Hauser's fresh perspective on one of the great archetypal epics, in focusing on the marginalised women's stories, makes for fascinating reading . . . a clever premise and a thoroughly enjoyable." -- ELIZABETH FREMANTLE, author of Sisters of Treason "In her sparkling debut novel classicist Emily Hauser offers a fresh take on the old but living legend spun so artfully in Homer's Iliad . . . tells a ripping good story." -- PAUL CARTLEDGE, Professor of Ancient History at Cambridge "A brilliant re-imagining of the Iliad, faithful to the original yet completely accessible . . . the two young women at the centre of the drama are faithfully representative of their time and place yet feel compellingly contemporary . . . Emily Hauser has given us a lively new take on a classic." -- TERRY HAWKINS, author of The Rage of Achilles

Edition details

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 1814
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0857523147
• ISBN 13: 9780857523143
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400