Cleopatra : a novel /
"Cleopatra tells her own story in this evocative and sensuous historical epic from the bestselling and award-winning author of Faebound and The Final Strife. You know my name, but you do not know me. Your historians call me seductress, but I was ever in love's thrall. Your playwrights spea...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Ballantine Books,
[2026]
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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| Summary: | "Cleopatra tells her own story in this evocative and sensuous historical epic from the bestselling and award-winning author of Faebound and The Final Strife. You know my name, but you do not know me. Your historians call me seductress, but I was ever in love's thrall. Your playwrights speak of witchcraft, but my talents came from the gods themselves. Your poets sing of my bloodlust, but I was always protecting my children. How wilfully they refuse to concede that a woman could be powerful, strategic, and divinely blessed to rule. Death will silence me no longer. This is not the story of how I died. But how I lived"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 337 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-337). |
| ISBN: | 9780593875643 0593875648 |