Author: Mendelsohn, Daniel.
Publication: Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Binding: Hardcover.
Edition: First Edition/Second Printing.
Pages: 257.
Condition: As New/As New Dust Jacket.

The author's second book. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with the Softcover Edition. Published in an extremely small and limited print run by a University Press as a hardcover original only. In the first book-length study of Euripides' "Children of Herakles" and "Suppliant Women", Daniel Mendelsohn offers fresh insights into the Greek conception of gender (very different from and instructive about ours) and the Athenian philosophy of civic identity to demonstrate the formal elegance and intellectual complexity of two works that are still dismissed as artistic failures within the poet's oeuvre, a fact that the sublime Classicist Mendelsohn has singlehandedly sought to restore to their rightful place. "Detailed, profound, and revealing. A brilliant success" (The New York Review of Books). A must-have" title for Daniel Mendelsohn collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed and dated in black fountain pen on the title page by the author: "Daniel Mendelsohn. 23 X 06". This title has been out-of-print as a hardcover for a long time and is now collectible. This is the only signed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/Second Printing available online and has no flaws, a pristine beauty. A rare signed copy thus. One of the finest living American writers. A flawless collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER DANIEL MENDELSOHN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0199249563.