Hypatia
Kingsley Charles Kingsley,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Dodo Press
Kingsley Charles Kingsley,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Dodo Press
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781905432271 (1905432275)
Publish date: June 1st 2005
Publisher: Dodo Press
Pages no: 472
Edition language: English
DNF (but I'm rating it anyway). Historical fiction about a female Greek pagan mathematician through male Victorian Christian lens. I should have known better. This book is free in various spots online and Librivox has a recording of it.
This book took me six months to read. I would occasionally get so bored with it, that I just read books in between, and finally got it finished just because I was tired of seeing it on my 'currently reading' list. Like most nineteenth century written books, it takes a keen eye to get used to the l...