007384 Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. New York, NY, U.S.A. 1962 First American Edition, 1963 Dust Jacket Good Hard Cover Good Red cloth on boards. 318 pp. Volume has worn edges. Jacket has much edgewear, some tears, chips, and creases. Rubbed both panels, with some color removed. Now in clear cover. "Among all the great figures in the Old Testament, none is more enigmatic than Samson. His appeal is tremendous, his story dramatic - but what was his true charater, his real significance? In a robust and engrossing novel, Eric Linklater depicts him as a great folk hero - at once lusty ruffian, shrewd peasant, and primitive mystic - whose legendary feats of strength, ribald humor, and fanatical nationalism maintained a threatened faith and the flame of life in a people oppressed by a foreign power. The Samson of this book is brilliantly realized and so is Deliah: a great beauty, a great courtesan, whose love for the moody giant is true and intense, if fataly flawed, so that after her act of betrayal it reasserts itself in a final display of strength." $20.00USD
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