These classic epics provided the basis for Greek education and culture throughout the classical age and formed the backbone of humane education through the birth of the Roman Empire and the spread of Christianity. After all the years, I can easily visualize many of the scenes Mr Whittemore put to paper, and can't wait to have copies in hand again.

The spirit inside is dreadfully elderly and creaking, a regular tottering veteran of the wars at least eighty-five years old. I was by way of thinking I already had started here, and what it amounts to is heavy lifting that's bloody hard on the back. A broad ranging story which spans decades and continents where characters paths intertwine like the fibres of a fine Persian carpet. In this second of the Quartet, a poker game begun in 1921 between three people, a black Arab-Sudanese, a Jewish-Hungarian ex-diplomat/soldier and an Irish ex-Independence fighter continues. Ronan, a nine-year-old boy, grows so entranced by the storytelling that, when the old man leaves abruptly under mysterious circumstances, the boy devotes himself to finding him again.Derringer Books is an accredited member of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA) and has been selling used and rare books and ephemera since 1998.

Please Note: This copy is being sold merely for the dustwrapper which is in clean very good condition.Admittedly after the first book I had extraordinarily high hopes, but this book certainly never came close to the imagination contained in the first book. Coolly brilliant policeman Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard must find her killer among a houseful of suspects, most of whom had very good reason to wish her ill. like Moby Dick, Flanagan's Goulds Book of Fish and Cees Nooteboom for instance, but Edward Whittemore, maybe because of his obscurity (ie. Personalized advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of information under California and other state privacy laws, and you may have a right to opt out. They are presented as supermen, doing impossible things, such as owning Jerusalem or forging the "original 3000 year-old Bible.

Continuing, layering, deepening the first book 》Sainai Tapestry《we go a bit too far down the road of absurd and revolting as sublime. He pressed the button once more to reveal a third face, also normal in appearance but with both hands seemingly stationary. Arriving at the Semiramis Hotel just as an historic Peace Conference convenes, Agnes, with her plainspoken American opinions - and a small, noisy dachshund named Rosie - enters into the company of the historic luminaries.A tall black man in a stately Arab cloak and Arab headgear, so black he was almost blue, stood rubbing his hands after escaping the wind.