The Little Iliad

by Maurice Hewlett, Sir Philip Burne-Jones (Illustrator)

Overview

One of the most striking things Mr. Hewlett has done. It is a study of the modern Helen and her exercise of her charms. If the author has taken liberties with the original epic, yet is he well-justified, for this is the twentieth century, and his people are modern to their finger-tips. But it is written beautifully, as Maurice Hewlett always writes, and it shows a penetration, a subtle, ironic humor that is much to be appreciated.

–The Book News Monthly, Volume 34 [1916]

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781663513915
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	06/06/2020
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.73(d)

About the Author

Maurice Hewlett (1861-1923) was an English historical novelist, poet & essayist most famous for his work "Forest Lovers". He was a close friend of J.M.Barrie. Hewlett's 1900 novel The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay, about Richard the Lionheart, was a favourite novel of T. E. Lawrence. Lawrence said he had read The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay several times. Another of Hewlett's historical novels was The Queen's Quair (1904), about Mary, Queen of Scots. The Queen's Quair was cited as an influence by Ford Madox Ford, who said that The Queen's Quair "taught me a good deal". Hewlett also wrote six novels based on the Icelandic Family sagas, these include The Light Heart and Thorgils of Treadholt. Hewlett also wrote The Outlaw (based on Gisli's Saga), A Lover's Tale (based on Kormak's Saga), Frey and His Wife (based on Ogmund Dytt's tale), and Gudred the Fair (based on the Greenland sagas).