The Root and the Flower (Twentieth Century Classics)

by PenelopeFitzgerald (Introduction), L.H.Myers (Author)

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  Paperback
  1985

  $3.25

  First published in 1935, this trilogy is set in exotic 16th-century India and records a succession of dynastic struggles during the reign of Akbar the great Mogul. It is an absorbing story of war, betrayal, intrique, and political power, as well as a moving study of the spiritual strenghts and weaknesses of Myer's characters. An exciting exotic adventure story...a remarkbable work of imagination. --Iris Murdoch

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  Paperback
  2002

  $3.25

  Available here in one volume, Myers' great trilogy (THE NEAR AND THE FAR, PRINCE JALI and RAJAH AMAR) is set in exotic sixteenth-century India, and records a succession of dynastic struggles during the ruinous reign of Akbar the Great Mogul. It is also a story of personal strength and weakness - as Rajah Amar balances his piety against his public responsibilities his son, Prince Jali, is led into a life of decadent materialism in his search for new experience ...First published in 1935.