Of Gods and men
Frederic Raphael
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New - Hardcover
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Add to basketSold by Cheerleader Productions Ltd, Gloucester, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller since 22 July 2021
Condition: New
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketBrand new. A beautiful hardcover Folio Society edition with slipcase. The Folio Society, 1992. 1st edition(thus), 1st printing. With illustrations and frontispiece plus full-colour plates by Sarah Raphael. Dark blue card slipcase. Quarter black cloth, white paper boards with a design in jazzy colour, plain blue-grey endleaves. 28 cm, 7½ " x 11" tall. 174pp, 8 unnumbered pages of plates. Folio edition number 737.
This book contains six very different writings by Frederic Raphael. Oedipus and Jocasta, a one-page poem; Of Gods and Men, 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 his family followed by a 20-page poem describing the labours 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.
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