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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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