Valentine’s Day Giveaway: O, JULIET
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On this Valentine’s Day, we certainly have not forgotten our loyal Wonders & Marvels readers! We are offering a bon-bon of a giveaway with Robin Maxwell’s lushly romantic O, Juliet. Known for her “electrifying prose…[and] enthralling historical fiction,” the author has taken the most iconic pair in literature, glorified by no less than William Shakespeare and, setting their story on the cusp of the Italian Renaissance, made them her own.
Yes, you guessed correctly! We are talking about none other than Romeo and Juliet. Bedchambers, balconies, breathless intrigue – it’s all there in the stuff of beloved legend.
We at Wonders & Marvels have five copies of O, Juliet for our special giveaway. For a chance to win, simply comment by midnight EST on February 19, 2010 in response to this question:
How would you re-write a famous story in history? Good luck!
(Sorry, at this time we can only ship books to U.S. winners.)
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Wow, this sounds like a great read. I think I would rewrite Hateshepsut’s story–the powerful female pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty.
Wow, that is a tough question! i think I’d like to do a modernized version of Camelot. Bring Arthur, Guinevere and Lancelot into the present, maybe.
Margay
Well, I have no imagination to speak of, which is why I read… to enjoy everyone else’s. I’d love to see Anne Boleyn outlive Henry, but since that wasn’t fiction~ Thanks for the giveaway.
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Nice to rewrite Cleopatra! that would change history as well I guess. Thank you for the giveaway.
Merlin and Vivien. I’ve always thought that could have ended so much better than it did.
I have an interest in setting some of my favorite tales from classic Greek and Roman mythology in the American West. For instance, my cowboy hero meets up with Niobe in a cave in the desert and later returns to find only a stone oozing moisture. I would drop the “Pan” in her name and have Dora open a mysterious safe in the sheriff’s office. Etc.
Rewrite a story or rewrite history?
Much could be done to improve history, like cutting short Bismarck’s reign. He singlehandedly prevented democracy from being introduce to Germany for several decades, compared to when it would have otherwise arrived. If, by the 1930s, Germany had had a better tradition of democracy, they might very well not have been won over by a populistic fascist ruler.
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