Memoirs of Hadrian(Including Reflections On the Composition of Memoirs of Hadrian) (Modern Classics)

Bailey, Paul,Yourcenar, Marguerite,Frick, Grace

ISBN 10: 0140087648 / ISBN 13: 9780140087642

Published by Penguin Classics, 1986

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Memoirs of Hadrian(Including Reflections On the Composition of Memoirs of Hadrian) (Modern Classics)
• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140087648
• ISBN 13: 9780140087642
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Acceptable
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

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.

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 Francaise. She died in 1987.