The King of the Ants

Zbigniew Herbert

earliest edition we have, 1975 Ecco Press, 1999 85 pages

This New Prose collection from the late Zbigniew Herbert, available for the first time in English, is a retelling of myths and tales "simple and as old as the world" ("Endymion"). Hybrids of the short story and the essay, the eleven pieces in The King of the Ants present Herbert's very different "apocryphal" views of the mythological past.

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The king of the ants edition · 1999 · Ecco Press · 85 pages
The King of the Ants paperback · 1975 · Ecco · 96 pages · 9780060797201

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