Memoirs of Hadrian

by Marguerite Yourcenar, Grace Frick (Translator)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780374529260
Publisher:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date:	05/18/2005
Series:	FSG Classics Series
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	416
Sales rank:	77,107
Product dimensions:	5.56(w) x 8.28(h) x 1.11(d)

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.

Editorial Reviews

"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

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