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Anabasis: A Journey to the Interior: A Novel
The bestselling author of In The Land of Dreamy Dreams expands her fictional landscape and for the first time recounts a story set in ancient times. 500 B.C.--Pericles is dead; the Golden Age has peaked; and, in its aftermath, in a Grecian setting of declines and fall, a slave girl begins her ascension to freedom and self-discovery.
Paperback, 192 pages
Published
September 1st 1995
by University Press of Mississippi
(first published January 1st 1994)
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"It was an age when muses and fates roamed the earth, when the world was new and all things seemed to be happening for the first time. The Golden Age of Greece was ending.
Within the setting of decline and fall, Ellen Gilchrist expands her fictional realm and for the first time tells a story set in ancient times. A slave girl named Auria - independent, resourceful and, like women in other Gilchrist fiction, certain to captivate the reader - rescues a child that has been put o...more
"It was an age when muses and fates roamed the earth, when the world was new and all things seemed to be happening for the first time. The Golden Age of Greece was ending.
Within the setting of decline and fall, Ellen Gilchrist expands her fictional realm and for the first time tells a story set in ancient times. A slave girl named Auria - independent, resourceful and, like women in other Gilchrist fiction, certain to captivate the reader - rescues a child that has been put o...more
One of the few Ellen Gilchrist books that I didn't finish.
A wonderful story about Ancient Greece intermingled with the present.
Light and pleasant reading
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