Salome
By: Beatrice Gormley.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780375839085; 9780375939082
Subjects: Salome -- (Biblical figure) -- Juvenile fiction.; Salome -- (Biblical figure) -- Fiction.; Herodias -- Fiction.; Herod Antipas, -- Tetrarch of Galilee -- Fiction.; Bible -- N.T. -- History of Biblical events -- Fiction.; Dance -- Fiction.; Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D. -- Fiction.
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: Relates the life of a beautiful descendant of Herod the Great, and events leading up to her Dance of the Seven Veils, after which her cruel mother coerces her to ask for the head of John the Baptist, an innocent man, on a silver platter.