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Edward Venn-Thomas lives in the twentieth century but has been mysteriously transported to the future, and the apparently idyllic society of New Create, where there is no hunger, no war and no dissatisfaction. However Venn-Thomas is starting to find life among the New Cretans rather dull. He comes to realize that their perfect existence, inspired by the poets and magicians of their strange occultic religion, lacks one fundamental thing - evil. So Venn-Thomas sees it as nothing less than his duty to introduce them to the darker side of life. First published in 1949 and also known as Watch the North Wind Rise, Graves''s novel is a thrilling blend of utopian fantasy, science fiction and mythology.

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Seven Days in New Crete

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    A Paperback by Robert Graves

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 1/26/2012 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780141197678
      978-0141197678
      ISBN-10 0141197676
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      Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Edward Venn-Thomas lives in the twentieth century but has been mysteriously transported to the future, and the apparently idyllic society of New Create, where there is no hunger, no war and no dissatisfaction. However Venn-Thomas is starting to find life among the New Cretans rather dull. He comes to realize that their perfect existence, inspired by the poets and magicians of their strange occultic religion, lacks one fundamental thing - evil. So Venn-Thomas sees it as nothing less than his duty to introduce them to the darker side of life. First published in 1949 and also known as Watch the North Wind Rise, Graves''s novel is a thrilling blend of utopian fantasy, science fiction and mythology.

      Trade Review
      No one else offers his precise combination of eroticism, nightmare and epigram * Guardian *

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