Of Gods and Men: A Film

The book is tight and square with solid hinges and bindings, and clean boards. Light rubbing to corners. The textblock has a faint small indentation on the half-title, else clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings, and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Frontispiece plus full-color plates by Sarah Raphael. The dark blue card slipcase is near fine with light wear. 174 pages. 7½ " X 11" tall. This book contains six very different writings by Frederic Raphael. ?Oedipus and Jocasta? ? a one-page poem; ?Of Gods and Men: A Film? ? a tale of greed, corruption, torture, infanticide, cannibalism, and almost every other sin conceived; ?Narcissus and Echo? ? a nine-page poem that retells the myth; ?The Story of Daedalus? ? a 30-page story of Daedalus now set in the 20th century; ?The Labors of Herakles? ? starts with a scene of Herakles killing family followed by a 20-page poem describing the labors forced upon Herakles in penance for his sins; and ?The Bacchae: As a Catalogue Raisonné? ? 23 disjointed vignettes set in modern times that describe various aspects of apocalyptic decadence.