The Song Of Troy - Hardcover

McCullough, Colleen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0752814133 ISBN 13: 9780752814131

Publisher: Phoenix, 1998

Synopsis

The tragic and terrible drama of the war between Greeks and Trojans, the long siege of Troy, and the impact of one woman's beauty on the fate of two nations, is played out again in this dazzling novel based on Homer's Iliad.

Here is the enchanting Helen, who we first meet as a spoiled teenager and whose passion for the handsome, reckless Paris leads to the betrayal of her husband, King Menelaus, and the fall of the House of Troy. Here is powerful King Agamemnon with his terrifyingly ambitious wife Klytemnestra and his soothsaying mistress Kassandra. We meet Odysseus, doomed to wander the Aegean for twenty long years; brave Achilles, who is haunted by the mad shade of his mother; the heroes Hektor and Ajax, and many more.

Chapter by chapter the narrative is handed from one character to another as the long years of siege, bloody battles, love and death unfold and the gods exact their retribution. With extraordinary vividness Colleen McCullough engages our sympathy for each character and gives this ancient saga a contemporary sense of urgency and excitement.

An unputdownable read and the best possible way to introduce a new generation of readers to one of the greatest stories ever told.

About this title

Book Description:

The tale of the Trojan War brilliantly retold by the author of THE THORN BIRDS. Does for Greek Mythology what SOPHIE'S WORLD did for Western philosophy.

About the Author:

Colleen McCullough is the author of THE THORN BIRDS, which was published 20 years ago, and sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. She has also written a sequence of novels on the life and times of Julius Caesar. She lives in Australia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Phoenix
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0752814133
• ISBN 13: 9780752814131
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384