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Seven Days in New Crete
First edition
AuthorRobert Graves
LanguageEnglish
PublisherCassell
Publication date
1949
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Pages281

Seven Days in New Crete, also known as Watch the North Wind Rise, is a seminal future-utopian speculative fiction novel by Robert Graves, first published in 1949. It shares many themes and ideas with Graves' The White Goddess, published a year earlier.

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Seven Days in New Crete, also known as Watch the North Wind Rise, is a seminal future-utopian speculative fiction novel by Robert Graves, first published...

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Robert Graves

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New York: Creative Age Press, 1949; as Seven Days in New Crete. London: Cassell, 1949. The Islands of Unwisdom. New York: Doubleday, 1949; as The Isles of...

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Holly King and Oak King

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mistletoe Seven Days in New Crete (1949) Triple Goddess (Neopaganism) Robert Graves (1978). The White Goddess: a historical grammar of poetic myth. New York:...

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Sacred king

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of his own personal mythology in The White Goddess, and in the fictional Seven Days in New Crete he depicted a future in which the institution of a sacrificial...

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Lucia Graves

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daughters. Her professional translation work began in 1971 with her father’s novel Seven Days in New Crete. In 1991 she moved from Spain to London where she...

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Nancy Nicholson

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killed in action in 1918 in the First World War. Nancy married the poet Robert Graves in 1918. The following year, Graves started as a student in Oxford...

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(June 22, 2007). "Broken English – Movies – Review". The New York Times. "Check Out Parker Posey in 'Broken English'". May 27, 2007. "The Doorman". The Hollywood...

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Matriarchal religion

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religion in his novel Seven Days in New Crete. Inspired by Graves and other sources was the Austrian Surrealist Wolfgang Paalen who, in his painting Pays...

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Crete

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largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica. Crete is located about...

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based on an examination of women's roles in storytelling. In 1949, Leiber read Robert Graves' Seven Days in New Crete, based on Graves' earlier work, The White...

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Equipment was scarce in the Mediterranean and in the backwater of Crete. The British forces had seven commanders in seven months. In early April, airfields...

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of Crete and capital of Heraklion regional unit. It is the fourth largest city in Greece with a municipal population of 179,302 (2021) and 211,370 in its...

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as Hania, is a city in Greece and the capital of the Chania regional unit. It lies along the north west coast of the island Crete, about 70 km (43 mi)...

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The King Must Die

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Military history of Greece during World War II

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island. After seven days of fighting the Allied commanders realized that victory was no longer possible. By June 1, the evacuation of Crete by the Allies...

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advances in Crete, he travelled on a pilgrimage to the seven Roman basilicas, however, that night, he had a severe apoplexy. On 29 November, just ten days before...

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State, after the island of Crete gained autonomy from Ottoman rule in the late 19th century. It later played a major role in the coup that toppled the...

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Greek War of Independence

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after a seven-day siege and Dalianis perished along with 385 men. During 1828, Kapodistrias sent Mavrocordatos with British and French fleets to Crete to deal...

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