Spartacus - Softcover

Lewis Grassic Gibbon (aka James Leslie Mitchell) was a prolific writer of novels, short stories, essays, and science fiction, and his writing reflected his wide interest in religion, archaeology, history, politics, and science. The Mearns trilogy "A Scots Quair" is his most renowned work and has become a landmark in literature.

“Spartacus is told with Gibbon’s characteristic verve and economy. As everywhere in Gibbon’s work, the reader is drawn without preamble into the fully active plot. On balance, the style works triumphantly. Narrow, brutal, shaped by forces beyond its control, continuously threatened by sudden death or agonizing retribution by a ruthless army of Masters, the slave experience forming the totality of this narrative is caught with unpleasant but accurate forces. It was a desperate time―and Gibbon realistically recreates that desperation.”―Ian Campbell, from the Introduction