Heroes

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Fourth Estate, 2004 - Biography & Autobiography - 604 pages
In this text, Lucy Hughes-Hallett attempts to understand the figure of the hero. Beginning with Achilles, the paradigmatic hero, she tells the histories and stories of Alcibiades, Cato, El Cid, Nelson, General Gordon, Captain Scott, Buffalo Bill and Francis Drake amongst others. She creates the image of the hero and excavates the reality of heroism.

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Lucy Hughes-Hallett is the author of Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams and Distortions and Heroes: Saviours, Traitors and Supermen. Cleopatra won the Fawcett Prize and the Emily Toth Award. Lucy Hughes-Hallett is a highly respected critic who has reviewed for all the major British newspapers. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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