Of Merchants and Heroes
Author: Paul WatersPrice: 14.99
Date Available: 1/2/2008
Publisher: Macmillan
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- UK First Edition / First Printing. SIGNED & DATED 31st January 2008 by the author.
Book Detail
In the tradition of Mary Renault and Robert Graves, Of Merchants & Heroes is a remarkable, beautifully written novel of love, loss and redemption. It is not only a historical adventure; it explores timeless questions of freedom, right and duty.
Synopsis
A consuming story of love, loss and redemption set in the classical world of Rome and Greece, "Of Merchants and Heroes" is the story of a young man's pursuit of his father's murderer and of the values and qualities he develops that will make him a man...a man capable of a deep, noble and enduring love. At the end of the third century BC, as Republican Rome's long war with Carthage was at last drawing to a close, it was already threatened by a new enemy, Philip, the tyrant king of Macedon in the east...Into this turbulent world emerges our Roman hero, Marcus, whose father is brutally murdered by pirates on a journey from Italy to Corfu on a visit to his uncle. Fate takes him to some of the great cities of the Greco-Roman world at a time of major turbulence, where he learns much and finds love unexpectedly.This is a remarkable, beautifully written debut that explores political and philosophical questions that are timeless democracy and tyranny, war and self-defence, right and duty as well as questions of love, loyalty and betrayal.
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- Additional Information
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Cover Type Hardback
Publisher Macmillan
ISBN 9780230530317
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