The Dream Of Scipio by Iain Pears
A novel set in Provence at three different critical moments of Western Civilisation - the collapse of the Roman Empire in the fifth century, the Black Death in the fourteenth, and the Second World War in the twentieth. It follows the fortunes of three men, and each man's story is linked by the classical text that gives the book its title.
Irresistibly seizes the imagination * Evening Standard *
Combining the visceral pleasures of a thriller with the more intellectual excitements of a novel of ideas.. Beautifully constructed...never less than engrossing * Sunday Telegraph *
Vivid, admirably imagined, ultimately very moving...This is a novel of the very highest ambition...immediate, sensuous, beautiful -- Alan Massie * Scotsman *
Combines dazzling erudition with assured narrative skills to offer glimpses of some of history's darkest corners, and stark and timely challenges to the very notions of civilisation and progress * Independent on Sunday *
A dazzling hall of mirrors... Ferociously ambitious... Illumined by a fizzing passion for the recondite * Daily Telegraph *
Combining the visceral pleasures of a thriller with the more intellectual excitements of a novel of ideas.. Beautifully constructed...never less than engrossing * Sunday Telegraph *
Vivid, admirably imagined, ultimately very moving...This is a novel of the very highest ambition...immediate, sensuous, beautiful -- Alan Massie * Scotsman *
Combines dazzling erudition with assured narrative skills to offer glimpses of some of history's darkest corners, and stark and timely challenges to the very notions of civilisation and progress * Independent on Sunday *
A dazzling hall of mirrors... Ferociously ambitious... Illumined by a fizzing passion for the recondite * Daily Telegraph *
Iain Pears was born in Coventry in 1955. Educated at Wadham College, Oxford, he has worked as a journalist, an art historian and a television consultant. He is the author of several highly praised detective novels, a book of art history, countless articles on artistic, financial and historical subjects, An Instance of the Fingerpost and Stone's Fall.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099284581 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099284588 |
| Title | The Dream Of Scipio |
| Author | Iain Pears |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2003-04-03 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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