NEW TITLES BY CONTEMPORARY & CLASSIC AUTHORS RELEASED MONTHLY

The Complete Text of 'Adapa's Ascent' - based on all of the available cuneiform source materials - is presented here as an integrated work for the very first time

This new publication is illustrated from beginning to end with the artworks of Odilon Redon - whose 'Oannes Series' tells the Adapa story in a visual format

Two essays - 'The Birth of Fiction' and 'Recreating an Ancient Classic' - set this work in the context of World Literature and explore how it has been recreated

Additional Bonus Features of this book include: photographs of the cuneiform tablets from which the text is translated and a bibliography of suggested reading

'Adapa's Ascent' is available both in the Academic Edition - containing a wealth of supplementary materials - and in the new limited issue Special Color Edition

In hardback and paperback of Academic and Special Editions - 'Adapa's Ascent' is published on supreme quality materials that are able to endure the test of time

One supplementary section is devoted to providing key information about all of the dramatic characters who feature in the colorful narrative of 'Adapa's Ascent'

An invaluable addition to the academic edition is 'Recreating an Ancient Classic' - an essay that discusses exactly how this work of fiction was set in English verse

Photographs of all of the core tablets that have been relied on in the course of composing this translation have been included in a special images appendix

Following discovery of new Sumerian versions of 'Adapa' - dating 500 years earlier than any known previously - a translation of them is also provided

For the benefit of those who wish to do further research into the Adapa legend, its history and many meanings, a brief bibliography of other texts is furnished

Finally, a bonus essay by poet Edouard d'Araille about the composition of this work has been added at the end, which explores a variety of translation issues