Publisher's Synopsis
"Heroic." - Maxim Gorky The riveting play about Attila! Despite praise from its advance readers and a scheduled run at the Bolshoi Drama Theater in Leningrad, Yevgeny Zamyatin's historical tragedy (begun 1925 and completed 1928) never saw the stage lights. It was banned by the censors while still in rehearsal and not published until 1950, thirteen years after Zamyatin's death as an exile in Paris. Now, for the first time in English, you can read Zamyatin's gripping masterpiece about Attila the Hun: a tale of power and desire and a Roman Empire on the brink of collapse. "The play is reminiscent of Shakespeare... tragic, action-packed, and captivating."
