Spartacus

By James Leslie Mitchell and Lewis Grassic Gibbon

Book Overview

Spartacus is the classic inspiring and powerful account of the uprising of the slaves against the Roman Empire in 73 BC, led by the gladiator Spartacus. Gibbon's knowledge is impressive, and the book is really wonderful to read as fiction, as adventure, and as a history of people in the grip of exploitation and oppression. Heralded as one of the great historical novels of the twentieth century--and an inspiration to generations of people who have fought against oppression and exploitation--Spartacus is a masterpiece of vivid storytelling from one of Scotland's finest writers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1773236180
• ISBN13: 9781773236186
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Must Have Books
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

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This novel is an amazing masterpiece of prose. I cannot praise this book enough! The opening scene is one of the most memorable and epic works of writing I have ever read.

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Lewis Grassic Gibbon (or James Leslie Mitchell) has written a novel of Spartacus that is as refreshing as it is clearly one of the forerunners of historical fiction. Opening through the eyes of the eunuch Kleon and his mission to find the heroic leader of the Slaves the novel centers more around Spartacus 'inner circle' and his relationship with Elpinice. Book I is told through Kleon and deals with the period up to the defeat after the Battle of the Lake. Books II and III with Spatracus' victories until we move towards the well-known and inexorable end on the Appian way at the hands of Marcus Licinius Crassus at the end of Book VI. The novel ends as it begins, with Kleon, and his crucifixionThe novel is well written, well-paced and pauses sufficiently to voice greater philospohical views than historical novels of the current generation. It is easy to see why this has been heralded as one of the great novels of its genre.