STEVEN JAMES BARTLETT

SAPPHO’S JOURNAL

The first novel of the quintet, Voices from the Past

by

Paul Alexander Bartlett

Ed. Steven James Bartlett

illustrated by the author

Autograph Editions, 2007

ISBN:  978-0-6151-5646-0

In Sappho’s Journal, bestselling author Paul Alexander Bartlett brings the famous Greek poet Sappho back to life in a finely crafted novel that reveals her loves, her sense of beauty, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho’s surviving fragments of poetry, Bartlett recreates Sappho in a lyrical account of the life, passion, fears, and faith of this remarkable woman whose intimate journal takes us back to 642 B.C. With a Foreword by the renowned Sappho scholar Willis Barnstone.

About the Author

Paul Alexander Bartlett is known for his published fiction (e.g., When the Owl Cries, a historical novel that takes place during the Mexican Revolution, freely downloadable from Project Gutenberg) and non-fiction (e.g., The Haciendas of Mexico: An Artist’s Record). His writing has been commended by many leading authors and critics, among them James Michener, Pearl Buck, Ford Madox Ford, John Dos Passos, Grace Flandrau, Sinclair Lewis, and many others. Voices from the Past was written by Paul Alexander Bartlett over a period of several decades. After his death in an automobile accident in 1990, the manuscripts of the five novels were discovered among his as yet unpublished papers. He had been at work adding the finishing touches to the manuscripts. His son Steven edited and brought the work to publication.

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