In the canon
The Golden Bough
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 1890
- Pages
- Pages 850
In a grove above a volcanic lake in the hills south of Rome, a figure prowls round a single tree with a drawn sword, peering into the dark. He is priest and murderer both, and he keeps the office only until the next runaway slave breaks a bough from that tree and kills him for it.
Who does not know Turner's picture of the Golden Bough?
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