Stealing Athena
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781616880774 (1616880775)
Publish date: June 17th 2008
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages no: 464
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Art,
Greece,
Womens,
Art History
Historical fiction completely based on actual events, alternating between early 1800's and ancient Greece. Uneven. I'm sure the research was impeccable, the author never seemed to stop cramming the facts in, regardless of the pacing of the story. Sometimes the writing was lovely and the main storyli...
''Stealing Athena'' has a beautiful cover, one of the nicest I've seen in a long while. Rich and opulent, just like the settings for this story. A novel based on true events, it reads like a romance. The tale is a romantic one, taking place as it does in Greece (both ancient and "modern" (19th centu...
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