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Memoirs of Hadrian Book

Memoirs Of Hadrian : Paperback : Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc : 9780374529260 : 0374529264 : 18 May 2005 : 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...Read More

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    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.

  • 0374529264
  • 9780374529260
  • Marguerite Yourcenar
  • 10 May 2008
  • Farrar Straus Giroux
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 408
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