A Choice of Murder

Peter Owen, 1992

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Details

Year of publication

1992

ISBN

0720608325

Place of printing

London

Author

Vansittart, Peter

Publishers

Peter Owen

Edition

1st UK Edition.

Keyword

SICILY ANCIENT GREECE IN FICTION TIMOLEON

Cover description

As New

Binding description

Dust jacket

Yes

State of preservation

Fine

Binding

Hardcover

Inscribed

First edition

Yes

Description

'. a sophisticated, thought-provoking historical novel, set in ancient Greece and Sicily. The protagonist is fourth-century B.C. soldier and political leader Timoleon of Syracuse, who liberated that city from the control of Carthage. Keeping dialogue to a minimum, Vansittart delves into Timo's life and career, supplying a political motive for his murder of his older brother, sketching his wanderings in exile and his induction into the Eleusinian mysteries, then depicting his triumphant return to his native Corinth. Vansittart does a credible job of resurrecting an almost forgotten statesman and in elucidating the idea of ``Hellas'--a loose group of independent but culturally related city-states--which found its last champion in Timo; an ancient way of life died with him. A fine meditation on Western civilization at an early crossroads." As New . except for inked stamp of bookstore on endpaper.