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In AD 312 the Emperor Constantine crossed the Alps at the head of an army from the Rhineland, and marched south to take Rome. This novel is an imaginative reconstruction of the dramatic weeks leading up to his triumph. The author has also written "A Cruel Madness", "Falling" and "Behind the Wall".
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"Colin Thubron has chosen to present his vividly original concept of Constantine as a mosaic of fragments from letters, written orders, jottings from supposed journals of the emperor and his train and, most revealing of all, extracts from the correspondence of his lovely, tragic, inaccessible wife, Fausta" (Sunday Telegraph)
"It is a stylish, sensitive exploration of complex people in an era of complexities, and creates vividly the climate of an over-ripe civilisation falling into self-questioning" (Mary Renault)
"'Legionaries and their commanders, frigid empress and frivolous lady-in-waiting, and, above all, the ambitious, domineering, but also self-tormenting and restlessly questioning Constantine - all come vividly to life and persuade the reader that he is their contemporary.'" (The Listener)
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"It is a stylish, sensitive exploration of complex people in an era of complexities, and creates vividly the climate of an over-ripe civilisation falling into self-questioning" (Mary Renault)
"'Legionaries and their commanders, frigid empress and frivolous lady-in-waiting, and, above all, the ambitious, domineering, but also self-tormenting and restlessly questioning Constantine - all come vividly to life and persuade the reader that he is their contemporary.'" (The Listener)
'An astonishingly imaginative recreation' Jan Morris, The Times
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- PublisherWilliam Heinemann Ltd
- Publication date1978
- ISBN 10 0434779830
- ISBN 13 9780434779833
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages192
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ISBN 13: 9780434779833
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