Hadrian's memoirs
A fictional reconstruction of the life of the Roman emperor Hadrian, who reorganized Roman Britain and restored order on the Danube. He was also the grandfather of later emperor Marcus Aurelius, for whom this fictional autobiography was written.
A fictional reconstruction of the life of the Roman emperor Hadrian, who reorganized Roman Britain and restored order on the Danube. He was also the grandfather of later emperor Marcus Aurelius, for whom this fictional autobiography was written.
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Format: Hardcover
ASIN: B0007H0A5G
Publish date: 1954
Publisher: Farrar, Straus And Young
Pages no: 313
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Philosophy,
Roman,
France,
French Literature
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"But books lie, even those that are most sincere. The less adroit, for lack of words and phrases wherein they can enclose life, retain of it but a flat and feeble likeness. Some, like Lucan, make it heavy, and encumber it with a solemnity which it does not possess; others, on the contrary, like Petr...
Excelente libro. Muchas reflexiones sobre la vida, la guerra, la paz, la política. La prosa es inigualable, bellísima, muy fluida. A pesar de que Adriano, el narrador, está al borde de la muerte, la sensación es de paz y satisfacción, no de desesperación o tristeza.
Wonderful book.I've already read it twice (Croatian and English translation) since I've first picked it up last September, and no doubt will I read it again few more times. Since I am bad at writing, I feel like I would have done great injustice to this book if I were to review it, so I can only hig...
”I was beginning to find it natural, if not just, that we must perish. Our literature is nearing exhaustion, our arts are falling asleep; Pancrates is not Homer, nor is Arrian a Xenophon; when I have tried to immortalize Antinous in stone no Praxiteles has come to hand, Our sciences have been at a s...
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