Memoirs of Hadrian (FSG Classics)

Type

Book

Authors

Marguerite Yourcenar

ISBN 10

0374529264

ISBN 13

9780374529260

Tags

Classics, Biographical, Contemporary, Literary

Description

Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrian has received international acclaim since its first publication in France in 1951. In it, Marguerite Yourcenar reimagines the Emperor Hadrian's arduous boyhood, his triumphs and reversals, and finally, as emperor, his gradual reordering of a war-torn world, writing with the imaginative insight of a great writer of the twentieth century while crafting a prose style as elegant and precise as those of the Latin stylists of Hadrian's own era. - from Amzon

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