Yourcenar, Marguerite creator text xx Harmondsworth : Penguin Books ,1986 9999 Penguin Modern Classics monographic und 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. / Marguerite Yourcenar Love, Fiction French Literature Historical Fiction 843.912 YOU 9780140181944 260603 20260930153159.0