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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. THE COLLECTED CLASSICAL STORIES AND CLASSICAL WHODUNNITS Two-Volume Slipcased Box Set - 1996 - Condition : Very Good.

Hardback. Condition: New. This volume brings together two historical novels based upon the Bible. "King Jesus" is a daring rewriting of the Gospels in the light of Graves's speculations in history and mythology. His Jesus is a charismatic religious reformer dedicated to the ethical and spiritual principles of an austere Judaism and firmly opposed to the legalism of the Temple authorities, the oppressions of imperial Rome and the allure of an older matriarchal goddess cult subtly subverting his ministry. Graves's daring rewriting of the Gospels portrays Jesus as fully human, yet marked with sacred royalty, bent upon a doomed confrontation with external enemies and internal doubts that lead to a conclusion at once inevitable and unexpected. Written in 1925, "My Head! My Head!" was Robert Graves's first novel - a retelling of the story of Elisha and the Shunamite woman. He amplifies the brief Old Testament story into a series of dramatic encounters between the wandering prophet and his inquisitive, quick-witted hostess, who, by skilful questioning, prizes from Elisha the secret religious history of ancient Israel and the true story of the patriarch Moses.Graves uses the extended dialogue of Elisha and Jochebed to elaborate his own unorthodox theory of the origins of primitive Judaism and the role of Moses in the eventual triumph of the cult of Jahweh over the other desert religions of the time.

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Hardback. Condition: New. This volume brings together two historical novels based upon the Bible. "King Jesus" is a daring rewriting of the Gospels in the light of Graves's speculations in history and mythology. His Jesus is a charismatic religious reformer dedicated to the ethical and spiritual principles of an austere Judaism and firmly opposed to the legalism of the Temple authorities, the oppressions of imperial Rome and the allure of an older matriarchal goddess cult subtly subverting his ministry. Graves's daring rewriting of the Gospels portrays Jesus as fully human, yet marked with sacred royalty, bent upon a doomed confrontation with external enemies and internal doubts that lead to a conclusion at once inevitable and unexpected. Written in 1925, "My Head! My Head!" was Robert Graves's first novel - a retelling of the story of Elisha and the Shunamite woman. He amplifies the brief Old Testament story into a series of dramatic encounters between the wandering prophet and his inquisitive, quick-witted hostess, who, by skilful questioning, prizes from Elisha the secret religious history of ancient Israel and the true story of the patriarch Moses.Graves uses the extended dialogue of Elisha and Jochebed to elaborate his own unorthodox theory of the origins of primitive Judaism and the role of Moses in the eventual triumph of the cult of Jahweh over the other desert religions of the time.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 2nd printing ; xv, 352 pp. ; illustrated ; (portraits) ; 22 cm. ; LCCN: 37-20307 ; LC: PS558.G4; Dewey: 810.822 ; OCLC: 2553812 ; "Biographical sketches and notes": p. 321-348. ; pictorial green cloth ; authors featured are Conrad Potter Aiken, Clara Lundie Askew, Bill Arp, Myrta Lockett Avary, Maude Barragan, J M Barron, Charles J Bayne, Daniel Garnett Bickers, Logan Edwin Bleckley, John T Boifeuillet, Agnes Cochran Branblett, Hennie I. Burke, Warren A Candler, Margaret Davis Cate, Joseph Ha rris Chappell, Thomas Holley Chivers, Betty Reynolds Cobb, Ellis Merton Coulter, Francis Potter Daniels, Will Allen Dromgoole, William T Dumas, Harry Stillwell Edwads, Lawton B Evans, Herbert M Franklin, John B Gordon, Francis Robert Goulding, Henry Woodfin Grady, John Temple Graves, Agnes Kendrick Gray, James A hall, Betsy Hamilton, Christine Park Hankinson, Will N Harben, Corra Harris, Joel Chandler Harris, Paul Hamilton Hayne, William Hamilton Hayne, Clarence L Haynie, Daniel Whitehead Hicky, Benjamin H Hhill, Nelle Womack Hines, Clark Howell, Charles W Huner, Louise Prudden Hunt, Henry Rootes Jackson, Thornwell Jacobs, Richard Malcolm Johnston, Charles Colcock Jones, Sara Singleton King, Lucian Lamar Knight, Marie de La Coste, John Basil Lamar, Sidney Lanier, Octavia Walton Le Vert, Constance Deming Lewis, Robert Loveman, Margaret McGarvey, Carlyle McKinley, Wightman Fletcher Melton, Olin Miller, Abby Crawford Milton, Margaret Mitchell, Roselle Mercier Montgomery, Minnie Hite Moody, Will D. Muse, Ernest Neal, Louie D Newton, Marie Conway Oemler, Thaddeus Oliver, George F Pierce, James Henry Reddick, Thomas W Reed, Loula Kendall Rogers, Mildred Lewis Rutherford, Abram Joseph Ryan, Anderson M Scruggs, Nelson M Shipp, Carrie Bell Sinclair, Johnny Spencer, Frank Lebby Stanton, Alexander H Stephens, Margaret Price Stillman, Jessie Gertrude Thomas, Ralph Methven Thomson, Ella May Thornton, William Tappan Thompson, Francis Orray Ticknor, Lida Wilson Turner, Thomas E Watson, Ouida C Wells, Charles Wesley, Gertrude Capen Whitney, Francis P Wightman, Richard Henry Wilde, and Augusta Evans Wilson ; portraits of Frank Stanton, General James Oglethorpe, Margaret Mitchell, Corra Harris, Henry W Grady, and Harry Stillwell Edwards ; intended for use by female college students in Georgia, this literary collection contains a large number of contributions from women authors in Georgia, making it a rather desirable book for women's studies collections ; "Free School Book Record" for Hart County, Georgia's Goldmine School, shows race of student required to be filled in; included on front endpaper ; VG. Book.

Full Leather. Condition: Fine. Complete 10 volume set, each bound into full teal leather with a different, themed gilt design to covers. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Octavo. 3 raised bands to spines and black spine labels, moire endpapers, ribbon. Color frontispiece in each volume. A few small scratches to the gilt foredges of "Hindus", "Egypt" and "Indians", else a fine set. Titles include: "Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt", by Lewis Spence, 370pp. "Myths and Legends of Babylonia and Assyria" by Lewis Spence, 412pp. "Celtic Myths and Legends" by T. W. Rolleston, 457pp. "Myths and Legends of China", by E. T. C. Werner, 454pp. "The Greek Myths", two volume set, by Robert Graves, 782pp. "Myths and Legends: Hindus and Buddhists", by The Sister Nivedita (Margaret E. Nobel) and Ananda K. Coomaraswany, 426pp. "Myths and Legends of Japan", by F. Hadland Davis, 432pp. "Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas", by H. A. Guerber, 397pp. "Myths and Legends of the North American Indians", by Lewis Spence, 393pp.