Thessaly: The Complete Trilogy (the Just City, the Philosopher Kings, Necessity) - Jo Walton

Descriere Thessaly: The Complete Trilogy (the Just City, the Philosopher Kings, Necessity) - Jo Walton

\n \nFinalist for 2017 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature\n \nFor the first time, Jo Walton's critically acclaimed, genre-defying trilogy Thessaly--The Just City, The Philosopher Kings, and Necessity--is available in softcover, in a single-volume trade paperback omnibus\n \nThe goddess Athena thought she was creating a utopia. Populate the island of Thera with extraordinary men, women, and children from throughout history, and watch as the mortals forge a harmonious society based on the tenets of Plato's Republic.\n \nMeanwhile, following his famous spurning by a nymph, Athena's ever-curious brother Apollo has decided to live a mortal human life on the island, in an effort to gain a better understanding of humanity. \n \nBut as both Athena and Apollo soon discover, even the Just City is susceptible to the iron law that nothing ever happens as planned. And there are sins in Paradise, mortal and divine, far graver than the everyday ones.\n \nIn an epic encompassing sandy Mediterranean shores and the farthest reaches of the galaxy, Victorian England and Renaissance Italy, gods and humans argue, fight, love, and most of all, learn from one another, in critically-acclaimed author Jo Walton's unique exploration of the human condition, Thessaly.\n

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Tor Books

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9780765399007

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