Two novels in one volume. In the first, Marzio Pandolfi, a Roman silver-chaser of genius and a bitter radical, rails against priests while carving a masterly crucifix, and his hatred turns on his own brother, a priest. The second is set in the Persian court of the age of Darius, where the young sage Zoroaster finds his philosophy shaken by love.
Crawford at his most varied, pairing a tense modern drama of conscience with an exotic historical romance. Download the free EPUB.