Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis by Robert Graves - Hardcover

Graves, Robert; Patari, R.; Patai, Raphael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0517413663 ISBN 13: 9780517413661

Publisher: Outlet, 1984

Synopsis

Examines selected Biblical passages for their mythological references and their anthropological value

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Review:

'There is eloquence, wit and a formal shapeliness in abundance from first to last.' - Michael Glover, Financial Times. 'While poetry schools came and went, Graves went on writing until his death in 1985, in an elegant, classically inspired style.' - Andrew Crumey, Scotland on Sunday. No one else offers his precise combination of eroticism, nightmare and epigram.' - Sean O'Brien, The Guardian.

About the Author:

Robert Graves (1895-1985), poet, classical scholar, novelist, and critic, was one of the gratest writers of the 20th Century. Athough he produced over 100 books he is perhaps best known for the novel I, CLAUDIUS (1934),THE WHITE GODDESS (1948) and GREEK MYTHS (1955). Robert Graves was born in Wimbledon, south London. His father, Alfred Percival Graves, was a school inspector, and his mother, Amalie von Ranke Graves, was a great-niece of the German historian Leopold von Ranke (1795-1866). He was educated at Charterhouse, and awarded a B.Litt by St. John's College, Oxford after his return from World war I, where he served alsongside Siegfried Sassoon. Robert Graves died in 1985 in Deja, the Majorcan village he had made his home (with the exception of the Spanish civil war and the Second World War) since 1929.

About this edition

• Publisher: Outlet
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0517413663
• ISBN 13: 9780517413661
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 315