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The Fall of Troy
'I Cannot Wait To Bring You To The Plain Of Troy. To Show You The Place Where Hector And Achilles Fought. To Show You The Palace Of Priam. And The Walls Where The Trojan Women Watched Their Warriors In Battle With The Invader. It Will Stir Your Blood, Sophia.'Sophia Chrysanthis Is Only 16 When The German Archaeologist Herr Obermann Comes Wooing: He Wants A Greek Bride Who Knows Her Homer. Sophia Passes His Test, And Soon She Is Tieing Canvas Sacking To Her Legs So That She Can Kneel On The Hard Ground In The Trench, Removing The Earth Methodically, Identifying Salient Points, Lifting Out Amphorae And Bronze Vessels Without Damaging Them. 'Archaeology Is Not A Science,' Obermann Says. 'It Is An Art.'Obermann Is Very Good At The Art Of Archaeology - Perhaps Too Good At It. The Amosphere At Troy Is Tense And Mysterious. Sophia Finds Herself Increasingly Baffled By The Past ... Not Only The Remote Past That Obermann Is So Keen To Share With Her In The Form Of His Beloved Epics Of The Trojan Wars, But Also His Own, Recent Past - A Past That He Has Chosen To Hide From Her.But She, Too, Is Very Good At The Art Of Archaeology ...
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Peter Ackroyd is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a particular interest in the history and culture of London. For his novels about English history and culture and his biographies of, among others, William Blake, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot and Sir Thomas More, he won the Somerset Maugham Award and two Whitbread Awards. He is noted for the volume of work he has produced, the range of styles therein, his skill at assuming different voices and the depth of his research. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1984 and appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2003. - Wikipedia
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The Fall of Troy
'I Cannot Wait To Bring You To The Plain Of Troy. To Show You The Place Where Hector And Achilles Fought. To Show You The Palace Of Priam. And The Walls Where The Trojan Women Watched Their Warriors In Battle With The Invader. It Will Stir Your Blood, Sophia.'Sophia Chrysanthis Is Only 16 When The German Archaeologist Herr Obermann Comes Wooing: He Wants A Greek Bride Who Knows Her Homer. Sophia Passes His Test, And Soon She Is Tieing Canvas Sacking To Her Legs So That She Can Kneel On The Hard Ground In The Trench, Removing The Earth Methodically, Identifying Salient Points, Lifting Out Amphorae And Bronze Vessels Without Damaging Them. 'Archaeology Is Not A Science,' Obermann Says. 'It Is An Art.'Obermann Is Very Good At The Art Of Archaeology - Perhaps Too Good At It. The Amosphere At Troy Is Tense And Mysterious. Sophia Finds Herself Increasingly Baffled By The Past ... Not Only The Remote Past That Obermann Is So Keen To Share With Her In The Form Of His Beloved Epics Of The Trojan Wars, But Also His Own, Recent Past - A Past That He Has Chosen To Hide From Her.But She, Too, Is Very Good At The Art Of Archaeology ...
FictionHistoricalCultural Heritage
RELEASED2007
PUBLISHERVintage
LENGTH215
LANGUAGEEN
Peter Ackroyd is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a particular interest in the history and culture of London. For his novels about English history and culture and his biographies of, among others, William Blake, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot and Sir Thomas More, he won the Somerset Maugham Award and two Whitbread Awards. He is noted for the volume of work he has produced, the range of styles therein, his skill at assuming different voices and the depth of his research. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1984 and appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2003. - Wikipedia
