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Life in the Tomb

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Description:"Life in the Tomb" a war novel written in journal form by a sergeant in the trenches, has been the single most successful and widely read serious work of fiction in Greece since its publication in serial form in 1923-1924, having sold more than 80,000 copies in book form despite its inclusion on the list of censored novels under both the Metaxas regime and the German occupation. Published in nearly a dozen translations, it is the first volume of a trilogy containing "The Mermaid Madonna" and "The Schoolmistress with the Golden Eyes, both of which have been available in a variety of languages. "Life in the Tomb" has moments of great literary beauty and of more than one kind of literary power. In 1917, Myrivilis was twenty-five. "Before I entered the trenches I had not the slightest inkling of life's true worth. From now on, however, I shall savour its moments one by one..." This... truthful fiction... [makes] one see... It is antiheroic and completely convincing. - Peter Levi [Peter Bien] has turned a Greek masterpiece into something not much less than an English one. - C.M. Woodhouse, "Times Literary supplement".We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Life in the Tomb. To get started finding Life in the Tomb, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: "Life in the Tomb" a war novel written in journal form by a sergeant in the trenches, has been the single most successful and widely read serious work of fiction in Greece since its publication in serial form in 1923-1924, having sold more than 80,000 copies in book form despite its inclusion on the list of censored novels under both the Metaxas regime and the German occupation. Published in nearly a dozen translations, it is the first volume of a trilogy containing "The Mermaid Madonna" and "The Schoolmistress with the Golden Eyes, both of which have been available in a variety of languages. "Life in the Tomb" has moments of great literary beauty and of more than one kind of literary power. In 1917, Myrivilis was twenty-five. "Before I entered the trenches I had not the slightest inkling of life's true worth. From now on, however, I shall savour its moments one by one..." This... truthful fiction... [makes] one see... It is antiheroic and completely convincing. - Peter Levi [Peter Bien] has turned a Greek masterpiece into something not much less than an English one. - C.M. Woodhouse, "Times Literary supplement".We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Life in the Tomb. To get started finding Life in the Tomb, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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