3 Novels by Bryher
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Overview: Bryher was the pen name of the novelist, poet, memoirist, and magazine editor Annie Winifred Ellerman.
Genre: Historical Fiction
Roman Wall:
Whereas The Fourteenth of October was the story of a Saxon boy who saw the battle of Hastings, in Roman Wall Bryher has turned to a lonely outpost of the Roman Empire in Switzerland, the country where she was born. This book has all the excitement and poetic charm of the first, and from the moment it opens, the reader is gently drawn into thc atmosphere of another age. The sights and sounds are those of seventeen hundred years ago, and one is instantly aware of the lassitude and restlessness, the hopes and the fears of the isolated frontier guards at Orba, as the threat of the German tribes, massed on the other side of the Rhine, grows daily more menacing. Valerius, the commander, wonders whether the storm will break before he can find a wife and retire to his farm. Demetrius, an old Greek merchant, anxiously hurries to complete his last journey home to Verona. Vinodius, the governor of the province, too shrewd to underestimate the danger, yet too obstinate to raise troops and arms, squanders his gold on the arena and a public holiday at Aventicum. Alternately, one is fascinated by the liveliness and colour and awed by the sense of doom as the walls of the Roman Empire begin to crumble.
The Coin of Carthage:
The war that began in 218 B.C. with Hannibal’s march across the Alps is one of the familiar stories of history, but its details are little known. A struggle between an emerging barbarian power and an old culture, it pitted a Roman army of mostly farmers against the highly trained officers of Carthage. Hannibal’s empire, founded on her control of the sea, would lose her fight against the Romans’ new methods of naval warfare. Only through the wit of their beloved leader would the Carthaginians recover economically from the war, but internal strife would drive Hannibal to exile and eventually to suicide.
Brilliantly evoking the world of the Roman Republic during the Second Punic War, Bryher creates a common man’s view of the greatest struggle in which ancient Rome engaged through the lives of two Greek traders.
The Player’s Boy:
The orphaned James Sands anticipated a magnificent career as apprentice to an Elizabethan theater troupe. But when his masters die unexpectedly, Sands must fight for his art, his home, and ultimately his life as the violent reign of James I overshadows the glory of the Elizabethan era. An historical novel with profound contemporary reverberations.
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