Memoirs of Hadrian -- Marguerite Yourcenar

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. Author: Marguerite Yourcenar Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Published: 05/18/2005 Pages: 416 Binding Type: Paperback Weight: 0.98lbs Size: 8.28h x 5.48w x 1.08d Book and Mortar Record Store Memoirs of Hadrian -- Marguerite Yourcenar 17.57 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. Author: Marguerite Yourcenar Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Published: 05/18/2005 Pages: 416 Binding Type: Paperback Weight: 0.98lbs Size: 8.28h x 5.48w x 1.08d ISBN: 9780374529260 About the Author Marguerite Yourcenar is one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century. Author of over twenty books--of which Hadrian is her acknowledged masterpiece--she was the first woman elected to the Academie Française. She died in 1987.

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