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Can I read The Windswept City: A Novel of the Trojan War on EtoBox?
The Windswept City: A Novel of the Trojan War by Henry Treece is a children's book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Windswept City: A Novel of the Trojan War about?
The war between the Greeks and the city of Troy had been going on for ten years when the boy Asterius slipped outside the city walls and witnessed the murder of Palmedes in the Greek camp. His escape route, a water pipe, was later used by the great Odysseus himself to visit Helen, whose kidnapping by Priamm's younger son Paris has set off the siege of Troy.
Who reads The Windswept City: A Novel of the Trojan War?
It is typically read by young readers, and the parents and educators who guide them.
Common subject areas: juvenile, young adult.
- Author
- Henry Treece
- Publisher
- Meredith
- Published
- 1967
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780241912164
- Category
- children's
- Subjects
- Children'S, Juvenile
- Rating
- 3.2 / 5 (2 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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