Return to Elysium

by Joan Grant

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Lucina of Greece was orphaned at a young age and brought up by foster parents. Now aged 13 she is sent to be educated by her philosopher guardian in the place he calls Elysium. There she finds herself the only female in a masculine world: while she proves herself an intellectual equal she cannot accept the rigidity of the scientific scepticism that disallows her intuition, psychic talents and capacity for love. Lucina flees to Rome to become a priestess and the founder of a mystic cult in show more that yet young and primitive city. She finds love in the arms of a Roman senator, but her philosophical upbringing comes back to haunt her and sets her on a path to return, in a way, to Elysium... show less

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Canonical title
Return to Elysium
Original publication date
1947
Important places
Greece; Rome

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Genres
Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
DDC/MDS
823.9Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction1900-
LCC
PR6013 .R2737 .R47Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish Literature1900-1960

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