num_pages: 480
description: This is Kazantzakis's modern "Iliad". Set in late-19th-century Crete, when a new uprising takes place to rival those of 1854, 1866 and 1878. In the village of Megalokastro, a Cretan resistance fighter named Captain Michales, is matched by the Turkish bey, his blood-brother.
language: English
title: Freedom and Death
titlecomplete: Freedom and Death
characters: Captain Michales
genres: Classics, Historical, Travel, Novels, War, Greece, Historical Fiction, Literature, 20th Century, Fiction
ratings_count: 3028
places: Crete
publisher: Faber