Memoirs of Hadrian

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Yourcenar, Marguerite
Published: 05/18/2005
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 9780374529260
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 8.28h x 5.48w x 1.08d