John Freely: 17 books

Book cover of Children of Achilles

Children of Achilles

The Greeks in Asia Minor since the Days of Troy

by John Freely
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009

Since the days of Troy historic lands of Asia Minor have been home to Greeks. They are steeped in a rich fusion of Greek and Turkish culture and the histories of both are irrevocably entwined, fatefully connected. Children of Achilles tells the epic and ultimately tragic story of the Greek presence...
Book cover of Celestial Revolutionary

Celestial Revolutionary

Copernicus, the Man and His Universe

by John Freely
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014

In the spring of 1500, at the apex of the Renaissance, a papal secretary to the Borgia Pope, Alexander VI, wrote that "All the world is in Rome." Though no one knew it at the time, this included a young scholar by the name of Nicolaus Copernicus who would one day change the world. One...
Book cover of Shadowless
by Hasan Ali Toptas, Maureen Freely, John Angliss
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017

'A knotty, postmodern tale. The quicksilver narrative slips between dream, memory and reality ... A beguiling enigma' Financial Times In an Anatolian village forgotten both by God and the government, the muhtar has been elected leader for the sixteenth successive year. When he staggers to bed...
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