Memoirs of Hadrian(Including Reflections On the Composition of Memoirs of Hadrian) (Twentieth Century Classics S.) - Softcover

Frick, Grace; Yourcenar, Marguerite; Bailey, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140181946 ISBN 13: 9780140181944

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1989

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.

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Review

"If you want to know what 'ancient Roman' really means, in terms of war and religion and love and parties, read Memoirs of Hadrian." - The New Yorker

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140181946
• ISBN 13: 9780140181944
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288