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28%OFFNaomi Mitchison - The Blood of the Martyrs - 9780862411923 - V9780862411923
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The Blood of the Martyrs

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Description for The Blood of the Martyrs Paperback.
Introduced by Donald Smith. Set in Rome during Nero's reign of terror, The Blood of the Martyrs is a disciplined historical novel tracing the destruction of one cell of the early church. With a cast of slaves, ordinary Roman people, exiles and entertainers, it is thorough in its historical interpretation and in its determination to make the past accessible and readable. Written in 1938-9, the novel contains many symbolic parallels to the rise of European fascism in the 1930s and the desperate plight of persecuted minorities such as the Jews and the left-wing activists with whom Naomi Mitchison personally campaigned ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780862411923
SKU
V9780862411923
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-37

About Naomi Mitchison
Naomi Mitchison was born in Edinburgh in 1897 and educated at the Dragon School and St Anne's College, Oxford. As a member of the Haldane family (her father was a noted physiologist and her brother the famous genetic scientist and essayist J.B.S. Haldane), Naomi Mitchison has been equally distinguished as one of the foremost historical novelists of her generation. In ... Read more

Reviews for The Blood of the Martyrs
... when a novelist is historically faithful in these treacherous waters of the human psyche, the results are tremendous. As a twentieth-century woman, it no doubt hurt Naomi Mitchison a good deal to describe the savagery of the early Christian persecution in The Blood of the Martyrs ... But it is the pain that gives the history its lifeblood. The ... Read more

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