Steps: Stories, Talks, Essays, Poems, Studies In History
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Robert Graves, one of the twentieth century's most versatile and commanding literary minds, presents in Steps a rich and eclectic gathering of his intellectual and creative output — stories, talks, essays, poems, and studies in history — assembled into a single, illuminating volume. The collection captures Graves in full stride across multiple disciplines: his fiction pulses with mythological depth, his poetry carries the precise, unadorned clarity for which he became celebrated, and his historical studies reflect the rigorous, iconoclastic scholarship that defined works like I, Claudius and The White Goddess. Steps stands as a remarkable testament to Graves's restless curiosity and his refusal to be confined by genre or convention. His prose instructs as much as it enchants, and his essays argue with the assured, combative intelligence of a man who had spent decades interrogating received wisdom in history, poetry, and culture. For readers already acquainted with Graves, this volume reveals the connective tissue between his many literary identities; for those new to his work, it poses an irresistible question — where does one end and the other begin?
Author: Robert Graves
Format: Hardback
Published: 1958, Cassell, London
Genre: Anthology
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Robert Graves, one of the twentieth century's most versatile and commanding literary minds, presents in Steps a rich and eclectic gathering of his intellectual and creative output — stories, talks, essays, poems, and studies in history — assembled into a single, illuminating volume. The collection captures Graves in full stride across multiple disciplines: his fiction pulses with mythological depth, his poetry carries the precise, unadorned clarity for which he became celebrated, and his historical studies reflect the rigorous, iconoclastic scholarship that defined works like I, Claudius and The White Goddess. Steps stands as a remarkable testament to Graves's restless curiosity and his refusal to be confined by genre or convention. His prose instructs as much as it enchants, and his essays argue with the assured, combative intelligence of a man who had spent decades interrogating received wisdom in history, poetry, and culture. For readers already acquainted with Graves, this volume reveals the connective tissue between his many literary identities; for those new to his work, it poses an irresistible question — where does one end and the other begin?