Memoirs of Hadrian
Yourcenar, Marguerite
Memoirs of Hadrian / Marguerite Yourcenar - Penguin Modern Classics - Harmondsworth : Penguin Books ,1986 - 320 p.
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.
9780140181944
Love, Fiction
French Literature
Historical Fiction
843.912 YOU
Memoirs of Hadrian / Marguerite Yourcenar - Penguin Modern Classics - Harmondsworth : Penguin Books ,1986 - 320 p.
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.
9780140181944
Love, Fiction
French Literature
Historical Fiction
843.912 YOU
