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Memoirs of Hadrian

Memoirs of Hadrian

by Marguerite Yourcenar, Grace Frick
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About this book

Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrianhas 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.

Book Details

ISBN13 9780374529260
ISBN10 0374529264
Series/Work OL106837W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language ENG
Created At January 30, 2025
Updated At January 30, 2025
Last OL update January 18, 2025

Subjects

Emperors Ficción Fictin Fiction Fiction, historical Fiction, historical, general Gay rulers Hadrian, Hadrien, empereur romain, 76-138 Histoire History Lesbian authors LGBTQ historical fiction LGBTQ novels before Stonewall Love Novela Novela francesa NOVELAS NOVELAS BELGAS Romans

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