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Description
First published in the 1950s, this modern masterpiece is Lawrence Durrell's translation and adaptation of Emmanuel Royidis's classic "Papissa Joanna"--the story of history's only female pope. The story's source is a ninth-century legend: a girl disguised as a monk makes her way from Greece to Rome, is elevated to the throne of St. Peter, and rules over Christendom for a time as Pope John VIII.
Books by Lawrence Durrell:
- Clea (1991)
- Caesar's Vast Ghost (1994)
- Reflections on a Marine Venus (2009)
- Justine (1957)
- Sicilian Carousel (1996)
- Pope Joan (1997)
