Circe
β Scribed by Madeline Miller
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company;Lee Boudreaux Books
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 246 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0316556335
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
The daring, dazzling and highly anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Song of Achilles
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**One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2018
"An epic spanning thousands of years that's also a keep-you-up-all-night page turner." - Ann Patchett
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In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child--not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power--the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves.
Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily...
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In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child--not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power--the power of witc
Ci sembra di sapere tutto della storia di Circe, la maga raccontata da Omero, che ama Odisseo e trasforma i suoi compagni in maiali. Eppure esistono un prima e un dopo nella vita di questa figura, che ne fanno uno dei personaggi femminili piΓΉ fascinosi e complessi della tradizione classica. Circe Γ¨
**#1 *NEW YORK TIMES* BESTSELLER--NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY *NPR, The Washington Post, People, Time, Amazon,* *Entertainment Weekly, Bustle, Newsweek,* the *A.V. Club, Christian Science Monitor* and \*Refinery 29, Buzzfeed, Paste, Audible, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Thrillist, NYPL,
Heks Circe uit Homerus' Odyssee vertelt over haar relatie met Odysseus en wat er gebeurde nadat hun zoon een grote fout maakte.
**The daring, dazzling and highly anticipated follow-up to the _New York Times_ bestseller _The Song of Achilles_** ** _ _** **One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2018 "An epic spanning thousands of years that's also a keep-you-up-all-night page turner." - Ann Patchett ** In the house of