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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...rom the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fictio... ...e Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, all... ...: “The scenes are drawn with power. Bartlett is an accomplished writer.” PAUL ENGLE in The Chicago Tribune: “...articulate, believable ... charms w... ...rvants but he wasn’t interested. I thought of him as old. But was he old? Age was in his scars, in his streaked hair and beard, the hands lifting an... ...th his rasping tongue and fish eyes—was there a more dishonest ruler? How ironical that he should represent us! As he kept folding and unfolding his... ...fraid?” he asked. “Of what?” “That it might bring bad luck.” He laughed ironically, as he flipped and caught the scarab, with a flick of his wrist... ... Phaon and Sappho kneel in a grove, a cithara beside them: age-old trees shade the lovers: the age of a ruined temple is part of t... ... Commander Lee vs. General Lee, Major Crittenden vs. General Crittenden. Europeans assure me that my cause is a lost cause. They say I will never e... ...tes oppose eleven states in this conflict. If I were to ask a citi- zen of Europe which entity he might support I think the answer would be the state...

...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesu...

...PREFACE by Steven James Bartlett xiii SAPPHO’S JOURNAL FOREWORD by Willis Barnstone 3 SAPPHO’S JOURNAL 5 CHRIST’S JOURNAL 155 LEONARDO DA VINCI’S JOURNAL 221 SHAKESPEARE’S JOURNAL 343 LINCOLN’S JOURNAL 511 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 621 COLOPHON 625...

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