Like the Homeric epics that entrance archaeologist Heinrich Obermann, "The Fall of Troy" is in part accurate, in part fantastic. It is a brilliantly told story of heroes and scoundrels, human aspirations and follies, and the temptation to shape the truth to fit a passionately held belief.
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Like the Homeric epics that entrance archaeologist Heinrich Obermann, "The Fall of Troy" is in part accurate, in part fantastic. It is a brilliantly told story of heroes and scoundrels, human aspirations and follies, and the temptation to shape the truth to fit a passionately held belief.
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Peter Ackroyd in top form. Taking as his starting point what is known of the career of Schliemann, the controversial excavator of "Troy," the novelist explores a character of who could live only in a certain time and place, the turn of the last century, seen through the eyes of his remarkable Greek wife. Not an intellectual exercise, but instead a headlong novel that surprises and satisfies from beginning to end.