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The Isle of Stone
A Novel of Ancient Sparta
2005
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384
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During the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta, two brothers—Epitadas, the spoiled son of Damatria, and Antalcidas, an honorable and courageous warrior—meet on the battlefield and fulfill their destinies. Original.
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Author

Nicholas Nicastro
Nicholas Nicastro
Author · 11 books
Nicholas Nicastro was born in Astoria, New York in 1963. His education includes a B.A. in English from Cornell University (1985), an M.F.A. in filmmaking from New York University (1991), an M.A. in archaeology and a Ph.D in psychology from Cornell (1996 and 2003). He has also worked as a film critic, a hospital orderly, a newspaper reporter, a library archivist, a college lecturer in anthropology and psychology, an animal behaviorist, and an advertising salesman. His writings include short fiction, travel and science articles in such publications as "The New York Times", "The New York Observer", "Film Comment", and "The International Herald Tribune". His books have been published by Penguin, St. Martin's, and HarperCollins.
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