by Geoffrey Trease, John Escott · Oxford University Press España, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780194791144
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«The Crown of Violet» is the historical novel by Geoffrey Trease adapted by John Escott, published by Oxford University Press España in paperback.
In ancient Athens, Alexis, son of Leon, dreams of staging his play in the great open-air theatre while contemplating the Festival of the Plays. During the summer he writes his piece for the following year's festival, but he and his friend Corinna discover that Athenian democracy has enemies preparing a revolution.
It belongs to the Oxford Bookworms Library collection, level 3 (1000-word vocabulary), with a word count of 10,800. The original work is from 1952.
For students of English as a foreign language and for young readers aged 14 and up.
Robert Geoffrey Trease FRSL was a prolific British writer who published 113 books, mainly for children, between 1934 and 1997, starting with Bows Against the Barons and ending with Cloak for a Spy in 1997. His work has been translated into 20 languages. He is best known for the children's novel Cue for Treason (1940
