The Song of Achilles SIGNED DELUXE EDITION with SPRAYED EDGES
- SIGNED Hardcover
- New York: Ecco, 2025
New York: Ecco, 2025. First Ecco Deluxe Hardcover Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First Ecco Deluxe Hardcover Edition. Hardcover. Signed by author in ink to title page. Stated first Ecco Deluxe Hardcover Edition, with full number line indicating first printing. Blue and red patterned sprayed edges. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 378pp, plus 30pp reading guide. Moderate shelf wear to extremities of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in bright red paper over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Gentle bumping to extremities, else fine. Binding is firm, tight, and sound. Pages are clean, bright, and unmarked. Featuring sprayed and stenciled edges, map endpapers, and additional material, this is a highly presentable signed first deluxe edition of Madeline Miller's triumphant and beloved retelling of the legend of Achilles and the Trojan War.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
A thrilling, profoundly moving, and utterly unique retelling of the legend of Achilles and the Trojan War from the bestselling author of Circe.
This deluxe edition features:
Elegant sprayed and stenciled edges
Sparkling gold foil
Endpapers featuring a map of Homer’s Greece
A guide to Greek gods, mortals, and heroes
Essays by Madeline Miller and discussion questions
A tale of gods and goddesses, kings and queens, immortal fame and the human heart.
Achilles, “the best of all the Greeks,” son of the cruel sea goddess Thetis and the legendary king Peleus, is strong, swift, and beautiful—irresistible to all who meet him. Patroclus is an awkward young prince, exiled from his homeland after an act of shocking violence. Brought together by chance, they forge an inseparable bond, despite risking the gods’ wrath.
They are trained by the centaur Chiron in the arts of war and medicine, but when words comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, all the heroes of Greece are called upon to lay siege to Troy in her name. Seduced by the promise of a glorious destiny, Achilles joins their cause, and torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus follows. Little do they know that the cruel Fates will test them both as never before and demand a terrible sacrifice. (Publisher).
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
A thrilling, profoundly moving, and utterly unique retelling of the legend of Achilles and the Trojan War from the bestselling author of Circe.
This deluxe edition features:
Elegant sprayed and stenciled edges
Sparkling gold foil
Endpapers featuring a map of Homer’s Greece
A guide to Greek gods, mortals, and heroes
Essays by Madeline Miller and discussion questions
A tale of gods and goddesses, kings and queens, immortal fame and the human heart.
Achilles, “the best of all the Greeks,” son of the cruel sea goddess Thetis and the legendary king Peleus, is strong, swift, and beautiful—irresistible to all who meet him. Patroclus is an awkward young prince, exiled from his homeland after an act of shocking violence. Brought together by chance, they forge an inseparable bond, despite risking the gods’ wrath.
They are trained by the centaur Chiron in the arts of war and medicine, but when words comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, all the heroes of Greece are called upon to lay siege to Troy in her name. Seduced by the promise of a glorious destiny, Achilles joins their cause, and torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus follows. Little do they know that the cruel Fates will test them both as never before and demand a terrible sacrifice. (Publisher).