Penguin Press 70s Caligula

Graves, Robert

ISBN 10: 0141022280 / ISBN 13: 9780141022284

Published by Penguin UK, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Penguin Press 70s Caligula
• Publisher: Penguin UK
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0141022280
• ISBN 13: 9780141022284
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1753694776.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: 38905076
• Signed: 7/28/2025 9:26:16 AM
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Synopsis

In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth and quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder Allen Lane's vision of 'good books for all'.

Published by Penguin for more than sixty years, the author and scholar Robert Graves wrote two of the greatest historical novels of the twentieth century: I Claudius and Claudius the God. Written as Claudius' autobiography, they follow his progress from a stammering figure of fun to the ruler of the Roman Empire. Here, he describes the glory and decadence of the mad Emperor Caligula's reign - an age of wild debauchery and whimsical cruelty.

About the Author

Robert Graves was born in 1895 in Wimbledon. He went from school to the First World War, where he became a captain in the Royal Welch Fusiliers and was seriously wounded at the Battle of the Somme. He wrote his autobiography, Goodbye to All That, in 1929, and it was soon established as a modern classic. He died on 7 December 1985 in Majorca, his home since 1929.