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The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales

by Richard Garnett

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1888
Pages
174
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On a mountainside in the fourth Christian century, Prometheus finds his chains broken and discovers the unfamiliar needs of a mortal body. Elenko, a priestess of Apollo fleeing the destruction of her shrine, offers him food and tells him how the old gods have lost their worshippers. Their meeting opens a collection of short tales that draws on mythology and legend to consider belief, power and human judgment.

Richard Garnett mixes solemn settings with pointed dialogue and unlikely encounters. In another tale, a pope ventures through shadowy rooms filled with alarming memories to meet a ratcatcher whose appearance raises a startling connection with a painted predecessor. Religious authority and philosophical ideas become material for satire, with arguments unfolding through stories.

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Richard Garnett

Richard Garnett combined English librarianship, biographer, poet, and writer whose long career at the British Museum placed him within nineteenth-century literary scholarship. De Flagello Myrteo gathers brief thoughts and fancies on love, presenting them as a sequence of compact reflections rather than a continuous argument.

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Book facts

First published
1888
Reading time
About 6 hours
Pages
174
Language
English
Genre
Satire
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