Spartacus: A Novel

by Lewis Grassic Gibbon

Overview

The original landmark novel of the slave revolt against the Romans in 73 BC, led by the gladiator Spartacus
 

Heralded as one of the great historical novels of the twentieth century, Spartacus is a masterpiece of vivid storytelling from one of Scotland’s finest writers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781453249154
Publisher:	Pegasus Books
Publication date:	04/03/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Lewis Grassic Gibbon (1901–1935) was the pen name of James Leslie Mitchell, one of the outstanding figures in Scottish literature. Acclaimed the world over for stories of great power and originality, his trilogy of novels A Scots Quair is his most renowned literary work. Gibbon was amazingly prolific and literally worked himself to death, producing seventeen books in seven years.

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“Spartacus is told with Gibbon’s characteristic verve and economy. As everywhere in Gibbon’s work, the reader is drawn without preamble into the fully active plot. On balance, the style works triumphantly. Narrow, brutal, shaped by forces beyond its control, continuously threatened by sudden death or agonizing retribution by a ruthless army of Masters, the slave experience forming the totality of this narrative is caught with unpleasant but accurate forces. It was a desperate time—and Gibbon realistically recreates that desperation.”—Ian Campbell, from the Introduction

Table of Contents

Contents

Introduction,
Note on the Text,
An Introductory Bibliography to J. L. Mitchell,
SPARTACUS,
I Insurrection,
II Legio Libera,
III Rex Servorum,
IV Rome!,
V In Rhegium,
VI The Masters,