The Bad Boy of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones. Daniel Mendelsohn

      

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      This eBook first published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2019

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      Source ISBN: 9780007545155

      Ebook Edition © July 2019 ISBN: 9780007545162

      Version: 2019-05-09

Dedication

      For

      M. M. McCabe,

      Patrick McGrath,

       and all my other McGrath cousins

      Contents

      1  Cover

      2  Title Page

      3  Copyright

      4  Dedication

      5  Contents

      6  Preface

      7  The Robots Are Winning!

      8 Girl, Interrupted

      9 Not an Ideal Husband

      10  The Bad Boy of Athens

      11  Alexander, the Movie!

      12  The Strange Music of Horace

      13  Epic Fail?

      14  The Women and the Thrones

      15  Unsinkable

      16  Not Afraid of Virginia Woolf

      17  White or Grey?

      18  The Two Oscar Wildes

      19  The Tale of Two Housmans

      20  Bitter-Sweet

      21  The Collector

      22  The End of the Road

      23  I, Knausgaard

      24  A Lot of Pain

      25  The American Boy

      26  Acknowledgements

      27  Also by Daniel Mendelsohn

      28  About the Author

      29  About the Publisher

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