Spartacus by Lewis Gibbon
Spartacus is a fascinating account of the life of Spartacus by James Leslie Mitchell. Spartacus was a Thracian gladiator and slave leader who famously escaped during Third Servile War, which constituted a pivotal slave uprising against the Roman Republic. Contents include: Insurrection, The Gathering of the Slaves, The Gladiators, The War Begins, South to Lucania, Legio Libera, War in the Mountains, The Pits of Death, Rex Servorum, The Conqueror, Winter in Nola, Crixus in Apulia, Torment, Rome , the Defiles of Mutina, etc. James Leslie Mitchell (1901 - 1935), also known under the pseudonym Lewis Grassic Gibbon, was a Scottish writer. Other notable works by this author include: Hanno: or the Future of Exploration (1928), Stained Radiance: A Fictionist's Prelude (1930), and The Thirteenth Disciple (1931). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in a modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.James Leslie Mitchell, 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon' (1901-35), was born and brought up in the rich farming land of Scotland's North-East coast. After a brief journalistic career, he joined the Royal Army Service Corps in 1919, serving in Persia, India and Egypt before he spent six years as a clerk in the RAF. He married Rebecca Middleton in 1925, and became a full-time writer in 1929. He was a prolific writer of novels, short stories and essays and had seventeen full length books published before his untimely death at the age of thirty-four. He adopted his maternal grandmother's name for his Scottish work including A Scots Quair: Sunset Song, Cloud Howe and Grey Granite. An unfinished novel, The Speak of the Mearns, was published posthumously in 1982.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781843915096 |
| ISBN 10 | 184391509X |
| Title | Spartacus |
| Author | Lewis Gibbon |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Hesperus Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2014-06-27 |
| Number of pages | 239 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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