Robert Graves I Claudius

Graves, Robert: Two Wise Children, New York Harlin Quist Inc. 1966
Near Fine Ralph Pinto

A classy little book with great black and white illustrations by the author of I, Claudius. Previous owners name on front endpaper, a few pages are lightly bumped at top corner, boards have lightly rubbed edges. Corners have light rubbing and bumping. Dust jacket has light general soil and small tears at corners and spine. Jacket covered in BrodArt. Stated First Edition Very Good Hard Cover

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Graves, Robert: I, Claudius ( from the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius ) and Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina --- Two Volume Boxed Set, England Penguin Books 1979 ; weicher Einband / soft cover
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Tso volume in slipcase light tanning to the edges of pages, clean and tight else, very good sturdy slipcase Reprint Soft Cover 48mo - over 3" - 4"; Reprint

[SW: " HISTORY HIOSTORICAL FICTION ANCIENT ROME CLAUDIUS FICTION HISTORICAL " I. TITLE II. GRAVES, ROBERT]

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Rice, Anne: Pandora: New Tales of the Vampires, Knopf March 2, 1998 ISBN: 0375401598
,,Anne Rice fans will greet Pandora: New Tales of the Vampires, the first of her new vampire chronicles, as hungrily as the Fang Gang facing a fresh new neck. Our heroine, Pandora, a senator's daughter in Augustus Caesar's day, flees to Antioch when her family gets killed and discovers the antidote to stern Roman rationalism in the occult wisdom of the East. "Something attacked my reason," Pandora writes. "The very thing the Roman Emperors had so feared in Egyptian cults and Oriental cults swept over me: mystery and emotion which claim a superiority to reason and law." \n\nPandora gets her sexy vampire initiation at the fangs of handsome Marius (who later inducted Rice's famed vampire Lestat). Pandora tells how a nice Roman girl became a vampire in modern Paris, but mostly the book celebrates the sights and sounds (and philosophical bloodlettings) of the classical world. Pandora is more like Robert Graves's sublime I, Claudius than Rice's The Complete Vampire Chronicles. \n\nYet Pandora is a logical extension of Rice's work, and Pandora is a combination of her past vampire heroes and the nakedly, horrifyingly autobiographical heroine of Rice's 1997 novel Violin. Now, Violin is remarkably messy, but it captures the volcanic passion that erupts in her best work--Rice calls it "a study in pain." Pandora is really a dramatized debate between passion and reason, which Pandora calls "male reason." She teases her vampire mentor: "Marius guarded his delicate rationality as a Vestal Virgin guards a sacred flame. If ever any ecstatic emotion took hold of me, he [would] tell me in no uncertain terms that it was irrational, irrational, irrational!"

Condition;Very Good / Very Good ,Hardcover ,Anne Rice fans will greet Pandora: New Tales of the Vampires, the first of her new vampire chronicles, as hungrily as the Fang Gang facing a fresh new neck. Our heroine, Pandora, a senator's daughter in Augustus Caesar's day, flees to Antioch when her family gets killed and discovers the antidote to stern Roman rationalism in the occult wisdom of the East. "Something attacked my reason," Pandora writes. "The very thing the Roman Emperors had so feared in Egyptian cults and Oriental cults swept over me: mystery and emotion which claim a superiority to reason and law." \n\nPandora gets her sexy vampire initiation at the fangs of handsome Marius (who later inducted Rice's famed vampire Lestat). Pandora tells how a nice Roman girl became a vampire in modern Paris, but mostly the book celebrates the sights and sounds (and philosophical bloodlettings) of the classical world. Pandora is more like Robert Graves's sublime I, Claudius than Rice's The Complete Vampire Chronicles. \n\nYet Pandora is a logical extension of Rice's work, and Pandora is a combination of her past vampire heroes and the nakedly, horrifyingly autobiographical heroine of Rice's 1997 novel Violin. Now, Violin is remarkably messy, but it captures the volcanic passion that erupts in her best work--Rice calls it "a study in pain." Pandora is really a dramatized debate between passion and reason, which Pandora calls "male reason." She teases her vampire mentor: "Marius guarded his delicate rationality as a Vestal Virgin guards a sacred flame. If ever any ecstatic emotion took hold of me, he [would] tell me in no uncertain terms that it was irrational, irrational, irrational!"

[SW: New Tales of the Vampires Series]

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Kirkham, Michael: The Poetry of Robert Graves, London University of London: The Athlone Press 1969 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover; 1. Ed. ISBN: 0485111039
0485111039 New

Robert von Ranke Graves (24 July 1895 - 7 December 1985) was an English poet, scholar, and novelist. During his long life, he produced more than 140 works. He was the son of the Anglo-Irish writer Alfred Perceval Graves and Amalie von Ranke. The historian Leopold von Ranke was his mother's uncle. He was the brother of the author Charles Patrick Graves. Graves considered himself a poet first and foremost. His poems, together with his innovative interpretation of the Greek Myths, his memoir of the First World war, Good-bye to All That, and his historical study of poetic inspiration, The White Goddess, have never been out of print. He earned his living from writing, particularly popular historical novels such as I, Claudius, The Golden Fleece and Count Belisarius. He was also a prominent translator of Classical Latin and Ancient Greek texts; his versions of The Twelve Caesars and The Golden Ass remain popular today for their clarity and entertaining style. Graves was awarded the 1934 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for both I, Claudius and Claudius the God. First Edition New Cloth 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; First Edition

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