5/12/2023 0 Comments Spartacus by Howard Fast![]() ![]() The screenplay was written by Dalton Trumbo and starred Kirk Douglas as Spartacus, Laurence Olivier as the Roman general and politician Marcus Licinius Crassus, Peter Ustinov, who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, as slave trader Lentulus Batiatus, John Gavin as Julius Caesar, Jean Simmons as Varinia, Charles Laughton as Sempronius Gracchus and Tony Curtis as Antoninus. ![]() The son of immigrants, Fast grew up in New York City and published his first novel upon finishing high school in 1933. He was a bestselling author of more than eighty works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and screenplays. The book inspired the 1960 film directed by Stanley Kubrick. Howard Fast was one of the most prolific American writers of the twentieth century. Spartacus is a historical novel about the slave revolt led by Spartacus around 71 BCE. A very sharp example, rare signed by both Fast and Douglas. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Spartacus, a fictionalization of a slave revolt in ancient Rome in 71 BC, is well known today because of the 1960 movie starring Kirk Douglas and Laurence Olivier. ![]() Signed by Howard Fast and Kirk Douglas on the front free endpaper. Item Number: 109122įirst edition of this work, basis for the classic 1960 film starring Kirk Douglas. ![]()
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