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Troy: Our Greatest Story Retold

ISBN 
9781405944465
Format 
Paperback
Recommended Price 
R295.00
Published 
August 2021
About the book: 
The story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty, sees the Greeks launch a thousand ships against the city of Troy, to which they will lay siege for ten whole years. It is a terrible war with casualties on all sides as well as strained relations between allies, whose consequences become tragedies.
 
In Troy you will find heroism and hatred, love and loss, revenge and regret, desire and despair. It is these human passions, written bloodily in the sands of a distant shore, that still speak to us today.
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About the Author
Stephen Fry  is an award-winning comedian, actor, presenter and director. He rose to fame alongside Hugh Laurie in A Bit of Fry and Laurie (which he cowrote with Laurie) and Jeeves and Wooster and was unforgettable as General Melchett in Blackadder. He has hosted over 180 episodes of QI and has narrated all seven of the Harry Potter novels for the audiobook recordings. He is the bestselling author of four novels -  The Liar, The Hippopotamus, Making History and The Stars' Tennis Balls  - as well as three volumes of autobiography -  Moab is My Washpot, The Fry Chronicles and More Fool Me. Mythos, Heroes and Troy,  his retelling of the Greek myths, are all Sunday Times bestsellers.

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