Zorba the Greek (Faber Fiction Classics)
by Nikos Kazantzakis | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0571203132 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0571203132 Global Overview for this book
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Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Greek --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature
Novel by Nikos Kazantzakis, published in Greek in 1946 as Vios kai politia tou Alexi Zormpa. The unnamed narrator is a scholarly, introspective writer who opens a coal mine on the fertile island of Crete. He is gradually drawn out of his ascetic shell by an elderly employee named Zorba, an ebullient man who revels in the social pleasures of eating, drinking, and dancing. The narrator's reentry into a life of experience is completed when his newfound lover, the village widow, is ritually murdered by a jealous mob. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Greek --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature
Novel by Nikos Kazantzakis, published in Greek in 1946 as Vios kai politia tou Alexi Zormpa. The unnamed narrator is a scholarly, introspective writer who opens a coal mine on the fertile island of Crete. He is gradually drawn out of his ascetic shell by an elderly employee named Zorba, an ebullient man who revels in the social pleasures of eating, drinking, and dancing. The narrator's reentry into a life of experience is completed when his newfound lover, the village widow, is ritually murdered by a jealous mob. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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