Erica Jong, the acclaimed author of Fear of Flying, transports the reader more than twenty-six hundred years back to a time of myths, gods, and monsters, bringing glorious life to the renowned, seductive poet SapphoAs she stands poised at the edge of a precipice in the shadow of the sanctuary of Apo
Sappho
✍ Scribed by Alphonse Daudet
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 141 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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