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| #37024 in Books | Marguerite Yourcenar | 2005-05-18 | 2005-04-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 207.77 x26.42 x6.02l,.98 | File type: PDF | 416 pages | Memoirs of Hadrian||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| If you enjoy classical history|By Sean V. Werner|I don't even know where to begin when describing this book. If you enjoy classical history, and you are curious about Hadrian, it is unmatched. The book is written in a style that is analogous to those used by Roman philosophers and historians of the period. It, therefore, seems like you are reading a real first person account||"If you want to know what 'ancient Roman' really means, in terms of war and religion and love and parties, read Memoirs of Hadrian." - The New Yorker|Language Notes|Text: English, French (translation)|
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 ...
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