title: Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays
author:  Christa Wolf 
description: In 1980 East German author <b>Christa Wolf</b> took a trip to Greece accompanied by her husband, Gerhard. In 1982 she was awarded a guest lectureship at the University of Frankfurt, where in May she delivered a series of five "Lectures on Poetics" relating to her Greek travels and studies. The fifth "lecture" was ad raft of the novel <i>Cassandra</i>, which she then revised and expanded for publication. The four introductory lectures were published separately in Germany under the title <i>Conditions of a Narrative: Cassandra; The Frankfurt Lectures on Poetics </i>(<i>Voraussetzungen einer Erzhlung: Kassandra</i>). This volume presents the novel first, followed by its companion lectures, which illuminate its background and implications.
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  SEEKER'S
  
  
  QUEST
  
  
  _Book Two of the Seeker 's Trilogy_
  
  
  Cassandra Boyson
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright (C) 2015 Cassandra Boyson  
  
  
  All rights reserved.  
  
  
  Published by Kingdom House Press  
  
  
  ISBN 978-0-9906080-6-6
  
  
  **[CassandraBoyson.com](http://CassandraBoyson.com)**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  DEDICATED TO
  
  
  _CailieEllen_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  CONTENTS
  
  
  [Chapter One](part0004.xhtml#page_1)
  
  
  [Chapter Two](part0005.xhtml#page_27)
  
  
  [Chapter Three](part0006.xhtml#page_43)
  
  
  [Chapter Four](part0007.xhtml#page_61)
  
  
  [Chapter Five](part0008.xhtml#page_87)
  
  
  [Chapter Six](part0009.xhtml#page_106)
  
  
  [Chapter Seven](part0010.xhtml#page_120)
  
  
  [Chapter Eight](part0011.xhtml#page_135)
  
  
  [Chapter Nine](part0012.xhtml#page_150)
  
  
  [Chapter Ten](part0013.xhtml#page_171)
  
  
  [Chapter Eleven](part0014.xhtml#page_189)
  
  
  [Chapter Twelve](part0015.xhtml#page_214)
  
  
  [Chapter Thirteen](part0016.xhtml#page_229)
  
  
  [Chapter Fourteen](part0017.xhtml#page_250)
  
  
  [Chapter Fifteen](part0018.xhtml#page_263)
  
  
  [Chapter Sixteen](part001