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The Story of Marie Powell, Wife to Mr.Milton / The Isles of Unwisdom
(2003)An omnibus of novels by Robert Graves
The Story of Marie Powell, Wife to Mr. Milton (1943) is both a compelling imaginative reconstruction of the marriage between Marie Powell and Milton, and Graves' defence of the creative, life-affirming qualities that Marie embodies, in contrast to her husband's cold intellectualism.
Graves' merciless portrait of the young Milton, and his vivid depiction of everyday life and historical events, form a spellbinding narrative of a relationship, but Graves also sees the misalliance in the context of the larger forces at work in a society in the throes of a dramatic struggle between competing ideologies. It is Graves' sense of the universality of the novel's opposing value systems that gives the novel its larger resonance.
The Islands of Unwisdom (1949), Graves' second Renaissance fiction, reconstructs an expedition by Spanish explorers and adventurers to the New World. Graves' account of the ill-fated voyage of Alvaro de Mendana y Neya and his wife Ysabel to find the Solomon Islands, popularly believed to constitute the fabled Land of Ophir where King Solomon found his legendary wealth, is both an exciting historical adventure and an exploration of issues of culture, colonisation and the power of myth.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Graves' merciless portrait of the young Milton, and his vivid depiction of everyday life and historical events, form a spellbinding narrative of a relationship, but Graves also sees the misalliance in the context of the larger forces at work in a society in the throes of a dramatic struggle between competing ideologies. It is Graves' sense of the universality of the novel's opposing value systems that gives the novel its larger resonance.
The Islands of Unwisdom (1949), Graves' second Renaissance fiction, reconstructs an expedition by Spanish explorers and adventurers to the New World. Graves' account of the ill-fated voyage of Alvaro de Mendana y Neya and his wife Ysabel to find the Solomon Islands, popularly believed to constitute the fabled Land of Ophir where King Solomon found his legendary wealth, is both an exciting historical adventure and an exploration of issues of culture, colonisation and the power of myth.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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