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Title: The Greek Treasure: A Biographical Novel of Henry and Sophia Schliemann.
Author: Irving Stone.
Publisher: Doubleday.
Origin: New York, …
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Title: The Greek Treasure: A Biographical Novel of Henry and Sophia Schliemann.
Author: Irving Stone.
Publisher: Doubleday.
Origin: New York, NY, USA.
Publication date: 1975.
Edition: First edition.
Description: 477 p. 8vo. Author signature/inscription at dedication page. Publisher's 1/4 brown cloth hardcover, tan paper covered boards, gilt title stamped on spine cover, gilt author's facsimile signature stamped on front cover, semi-gloss color illustrated dust jacket.
Measures: 1.75 W x 6.75 D x 9.5 H inches.
About the work and author: Be it Michelangelo or Henry Schliemann, be it a chisel or a pick, there's always a lot of wood to chop in one of Irving Stone's factually fortified biographies of great men of obdurate vigor. Schliemann was certainly the most single-minded of these when in middle age, rich & retired from business, he decided to uncover the city of Troy destroyed some 3000 years ago. At this time he also married the young (only 17) Sophia who stayed by his side in situ during the years of endless excavations, even after little Andromache & Agamemnon were born. For Schliemann it was to be "A life sentence... Sometimes I don't know which is the prisoner in this mount. Troy or myself." But then there were the 1st coins & medals & vertebrae, & later Priam's gold & silver (which the Turkish government would contest). Schliemann was an arbitrary man, stingy with Sophia & her family tho no price was too great to pay for his lifework which he subsidized, while he drove himself unremittingly toward his own sepulcher. Certainly he's not the most lovable subject to read about at this predictable great length; & in all the bedrock scholarship & mounds of magma, it's hard to find the "bosom lifting feeling" of discovery however manifest the destiny of any book Stone has ever written.--Kirkus
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- Dimensions
- 1.75ʺW × 6.75ʺD × 9.5ʺH
- Styles
- Contemporary
- Period
- 1970s
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Paper
- Textile
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Brown
- Condition Notes
- Book condition: Very good; light wear commensurate with age and use (e.g. gently bumped spine crown/heel, slight board shelf wear, … moreBook condition: Very good; light wear commensurate with age and use (e.g. gently bumped spine crown/heel, slight board shelf wear, light age-toned text pages), strong square spine/tight binding, clean text pages. Dust jacket condition: Good -; Wear at extremities (e.g. micro-tears and crease, at front board leaf edge fold (2.5 inch tear at base/.5 inch tear at top). A good copy. less
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