Salome (2007 Gormley), novel

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Salome (2007) is a novel by Beatrice Gormley.

Abstract

Juvenile audience.

Relates the life of a beautiful descendant of Herod the Great, and events leading up to her Dance of the Seven Veils, after which her cruel mother coerces her to ask for the head of John the Baptist, an innocent man, on a silver platter.

Editions and translations

Published in New York, NY: Knopf, 2007.

External links

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