Book description
In national bestseller The Dream of Scipio, acclaimed author Iain Pears intertwines three intellectual mysteries, three love stories, and three of the darkest moments in human history. United by a classical text called "The Dream of Scipio," three men struggle to find refuge for their hearts and minds from the…
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When I am overwhelmed by awful news about plagues, wars, ecological disasters, financial implosions, and the rise of homegrown American fascism, I find it oddly comforting to learn about earlier eras when everything was falling apart. That’s why – every few years – I reread A Dream of Scipio.
The story takes place in a single village in France, but at three different times when the End of the World was nigh: the final days of the Roman Empire when the barbarians actually were at the gate; the months of the medieval Black Death, when the whole world seemed to…
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