John
Vandercook
“Empress of the Dusk: A Life of Theodora of Byzantium”
ιστορικό μυθιστόρημα (1940)
βιβλιοκριτικές 1940
ΠΕΖΟΓΡΑΦΙΑ
John W. Vandercook (1902-1963)
Empress
of the Dusk
Βιβλιοκριτική:
Atlantic magazine
“EMPRESS
OF THE DUSK” $2.50
By
John IV. Vandercook
Reynal
& Hitchcock, New York, 1940.
A good
historical novel, excellent for summer reading. It is a narrative based on the
life of Theodora, wife of the Roman emperor Justinian; a short book, written in
a forceful style, rather graceful, and very well ordered. It has the remarkable
merit of having been written by an honest author who devotes a whole preface to
telling the reader exactly what he may and may not expect in the way of
historicity. It has the further merit, almost as remarkable, of being pervaded
by a sincere and disinterested affection for its subject, which gives it an amenity
impossible to counterfeit. These two qualities, combined with a commendable
absence of padding, make an unusually attractive story.
Δημοσίευμα b.
The Citizen, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada,
June, 1940.
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The little port
of Paphos lay at the western end of Cyprus. A girl child was born. Her mother
had been an actress, with all that profession connoted in the ancient world;
and at the time of her birth her father (Acacius) was a trainer of wild animals
at the Paphos circus. The little newcomer in the home of Acacius was named
Theodora.
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The Citizen, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Saturday,
June 8, 1940, p.16.
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John
Vandercook
“Empress of the Dusk: A Life of Theodora of Byzantium”
ιστορικό
μυθιστόρημα (1940)
βιβλιοκριτικές
1940
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