Ardath

Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by John Martin, Giovanni Paolo Panini and Nicholas Roerich. A poet, burnt out and contemptuous of everything including himself, goes to a Chaldean monastery in the mountains and is sent back five thousand years to the city of Al-Kyris in its last night. Corelli outsold Wells, Kipling and Conan Doyle put together and was Queen Victoria's favourite; ...