For The Most Beautiful: A dazzling novel that breathes thrilling and passionate life into the story of the women of Troy - Softcover

Emily Hauser

 
9781784160654: For The Most Beautiful: A dazzling novel that breathes thrilling and passionate life into the story of the women of Troy
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1784160652 ISBN 13: 9781784160654
Publisher: Black Swan, 2016

Synopsis

If you've been gripped by Pat Barker's The Women of Troy and The Silence of the Girls, then For the Most Beautiful is a must-read for you . . .

Three thousand years ago a war took place that gave birth to legends - to Achilles, the greatest of the Greeks, and Hector, prince of Troy. It was a war that shook the very foundations of the world. But what if there was more to this epic conflict? What if there was another, hidden tale of the Trojan War?

Now is the time for the women of Troy to tell their story.

Thrillingly imagined and startlingly original, For the Most Beautiful reveals the untold story of Krisayis, daughter of the Trojans' High Priest, and of Briseis, princess of Pedasus, who fight to determine the fate of a city and its people in this ancient time of mischievous gods and mythic heroes.

In this novel full of passion and revenge, loyalty and betrayal, bravery and sacrifice, Emily Hauser breathes exhilarating new life into one of the greatest legends of all - in a tale that has waited millennia to be told.

'Brings ancient Troy wildly, raucously, passionately alive' Manda Scott, author of Boudica

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About the Author

Emily Hauser is an award-winning classicist and the author of an acclaimed trilogy of novels retelling the stories of the women of Greek myth, For the Most Beautiful, For the Winner and For the Immortal. She read Classics at Cambridge, where she received a double first with distinction and won the Chancellor's Medal for Classical Proficiency. She has a PhD in Classics from Yale, and was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. She is now a Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter, and teaches and researches on women's writing ancient and modern. Her forthcoming books include How Women Became Poets: A Gender History of Greek Literature and Ancient Love Stories - a collection for younger readers, illustrated by Sander Berg.
Emily Hauser lives in Exeter.

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Publisher
Black Swan
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1784160652
ISBN 13 
9781784160654
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
496

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