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Memoirs of Hadrian

by Marguerite Yourcenar

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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.

Review:

"In her brilliant 'psychological novel and meditation on history,' Marguerite Yourcenar has written an imaginatively daring and artistically persuasive 'self-portrait' of Hadrian." Orville Prescott
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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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Product Details

ISBN:
9780374529260
Author:
Yourcenar, Marguerite
Publisher:
Farrar Straus Giroux
Translator:
Frick, Grace
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Historical - General
Edition Description:
First
Publication Date:
May 2005
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
408
Dimensions:
8.28x5.48x1.08 in. .98 lbs.
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