Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar PDF Free
Memoirs of Hadrian
by Marguerite Yourcenar
- Publication Year
- 1951
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 252
- File Size
- 1.4 MB
- ISBN
- 9780374529260
FictionHistoricalHistorical FictionNovelsLiterature20th CenturyFrancePhilosophyFrench LiteratureCulturalClassicsEuropean Literature
Memoirs of Hadrian Summary
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.
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