Memoirs of Hadrian and Reflections on the Composition of the Memoirs of Hadrian
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0140181946
ISBN 13
9780140181944
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Publication Year
1990
Publisher
Pages
288
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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1
