A New Athens, first published in 1977, is a novel by Canadian author Hugh Hood and the second in his 12-novel cycle, The New Age. It was preceded by The...
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A New Athens may refer to: A New Athens (novel), a 1977 novel by Hugh Hood A New Athens (album), a 2010 album by The Bluetones New Athens (disambiguation)...
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Ingrid, a seamstress. Later, Sofia visits her father in Athens, from whom she has been estranged, and spends time with his new wife and daughter. Athens seems...
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" The New Yorker has called the novel "autobiographical fiction." An English woman writer flies to Athens to teach a summer writing workshop. On the plane...
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The Life of Tymon of Athens, often shortened to Timon of Athens, is a play written by William Shakespeare and likely also Thomas Middleton in about 1606...
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Homo Faber: A Report (‹See Tfd›German: Homo faber. Ein Bericht) is a novel by Swiss author Max Frisch, first published in Germany in 1957. An English translation...
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Theseus (category Kings of Athens)
connection to Aegeus, travels overland to Athens, having many adventures on the way. When he reaches Athens, he finds that Aegeus is married to Medea...
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Owls to Athens is a historical novel written by H.N. Turteltaub (a pseudonym of Harry Turtledove). It was first published in hardcover by Forge Books in...
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Irene of Athens (Greek: Εἰρήνη, Eirḗnē; 750/756 – 9 August 803), surname Sarantapechaena (Greek: Σαρανταπήχαινα, Sarantapḗchaina), was Byzantine empress...
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seventh novel of American novelist Don DeLillo. The work, set mostly in Greece, is primarily a series of character studies, interwoven with a plot about a mysterious...
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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (redirect from Pulitzer Prize for the Novel)
its judgment because he deemed the novel offensive, and no award was given that year. Though Apartment in Athens by Glenway Wescott, The Wayfarers by...
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Choice is a 1979 novel by American author William Styron. The author's last novel, it concerns the relationships among three people sharing a boarding...
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The Beekeeper of Aleppo (category 2019 British novels)
is based on the author's experience over two summers volunteering in Athens at a refugee center. In 2023, Nesrin Alrefaai and Matthew Spangler adapted...
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Athens, against her parents' wishes. They then returned to their house on Hydra. While Jensen had by now delivered the first draft of his new novel which...
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Temptation (Greek: Ο Τελευταίος Πειρασμός, O Teleftéos Pirasmós) is a historical fiction novel written by Nikos Kazantzakis, first published in its original...
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born Christos Paraskevaidis, Χρήστος Παρασκευαΐδης) was Archbishop of Athens and All Greece and as such the primate of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church...
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Her novels deal with the Asia Minor Catastrophe, the civil war period and the post-war period in Greece. The dead are waiting. Kedros, Athens, 1959...
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born 1977) is a bestselling British Cypriot author and screenwriter. His debut novel, the psychological thriller The Silent Patient, is a New York Times...
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Heliopolis (redirect from Heliopolis (novel))
Heliopolis (Athens suburb) or Ilioupoli, a suburb of Athens, Greece Heliópolis, the largest favela of São Paulo City, Brazil Heliópolis, Bahia, a municipality...
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Aspasia (redirect from Aspasia of Athens)
(/æˈspeɪʒ(i)ə, -ziə, -ʃə/; Greek: Ἀσπασία Greek: [aspasíaː]; c. 470 – after 428 BC) was a metic woman in Classical Athens. Born in Miletus, she moved to Athens and...
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he was a translator and independent scholar. In 1966 he moved to Athens, where he was recruited to teach classics for College Year in Athens, and published...
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I Am Number Four (redirect from I Am Number Four (novel))
I Am Number Four is a young adult science fiction novel by Pittacus Lore (the pseudonym of James Frey and Jobie Hughes) and the first book in the Lorien...
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Unintended Consequences is a novel by John Ross, first published in 1996 by Accurate Press. The story chronicles the history of gun culture, gun rights...
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Drákos (Greek: Ο Δράκος; English: The Ogre of Athens or The fiend of Athens), or simply The Dragon, is a 1956 Greek existential and satirical drama crime...
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novel by Gore Vidal published in 1981. In 2002 he published a restored version, reinstating four chapters that a previous editor had cut and adding a...
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God of War (2005 video game) (category Novels based on video games)
killing his wife and daughter. As Ares besieges Athens out of hatred for Athena, Kratos embarks on a quest to find the one object capable of stopping...
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Draco (lawgiver) (redirect from Draco of Athens)
legislator of Athens in Ancient Greece. He replaced the prevailing system of oral law and blood feud by the Draconian constitution, a written code to...
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Yorgos Lanthimos (category Film people from Athens)
Hellenic Cinema and Television School Stavrakos in Athens. During the 1990s, Lanthimos directed a series of videos for Greek dance-theater companies....
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this novel. Almost every phrase from the lyrics can be found in the book. British band The Bluetones's song "Culling Song" from the album A New Athens makes...
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Greco-Persian Wars (redirect from Persian sack of Athens (480BC))
Asia Minor into the conflict. Aristagoras secured military support from Athens and Eretria, and in 498 BC these forces helped to capture and burn the Persian...
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