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The Tree of Knowledge
Elderly widow Deborah Milton, daughter of John Milton, one of England's most celebrated poets, faces interviews with academics and men of letters seeking information on her famous father, in a novel set in early eighteenth century England
154 pages, Hardcover
Published March 27, 1991
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Eva Figes
41 books36 followersEva Figes (born Eva Unger) is a German-born English author.
Figes has written novels, literary criticism, studies of feminism, and vivid memoirs relating to her Berlin childhood and later experiences as a Jewish refugee from Hitler's Germany. She arrived in Britain in 1939 with her parents and a younger brother. Figes is now a resident of north London and the mother of the academic Orlando Figes and writer Kate Figes.
In the 1960s she was associated with an informal group of experimental British writers influenced by Rayner Heppenstall, which included Stefan Themerson, Ann Quin and its informal leader, B. S. Johnson.
Figes's fiction has certain similarities with the writings of Virginia Woolf. The 1983 novel, Light, is an impressionistic portrait of a single day in the life of Claude Monet from sunrise to sunset.
Figes has written novels, literary criticism, studies of feminism, and vivid memoirs relating to her Berlin childhood and later experiences as a Jewish refugee from Hitler's Germany. She arrived in Britain in 1939 with her parents and a younger brother. Figes is now a resident of north London and the mother of the academic Orlando Figes and writer Kate Figes.
In the 1960s she was associated with an informal group of experimental British writers influenced by Rayner Heppenstall, which included Stefan Themerson, Ann Quin and its informal leader, B. S. Johnson.
Figes's fiction has certain similarities with the writings of Virginia Woolf. The 1983 novel, Light, is an impressionistic portrait of a single day in the life of Claude Monet from sunrise to sunset.
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September 15, 2026“If we can discover a little beauty now and then, in a world long since grown ugly, it must suffice us. For we are fallen too far”
“I have heard my children crying, not the angels sing”
“Books are their arsenal,… So they must keep us out of school, else fear their dominion”
What an amazing and surprising read that encompasses Milton, Ovid, english war, feminism and the ever wavering truth of the christian church.
“I have heard my children crying, not the angels sing”
“Books are their arsenal,… So they must keep us out of school, else fear their dominion”
What an amazing and surprising read that encompasses Milton, Ovid, english war, feminism and the ever wavering truth of the christian church.
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