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Framed as a letter from the Roman Emperor Hadrian to his successor, Marcus Aurelius, Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian is translated from the French by Grace Frick with an introduction by Paul Bailey in Penguin Modern Classics. In her magnificent novel, Marguerite Yourcenor recreates the life and death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world. The Emperor Hadrian, aware his demise is imminent, writes a long valedictory letter to Marcus Aurelius, his future successor. The Emperor meditates on his past, describing his accession, military triumphs, love of poetry and music, and the philosophy that informed his powerful and far-flung rule. A work of superbly detailed research and sustained empathy, Memoirs of Hadrian captures the living spirit of the Emperor and of Ancient Rome. Marguerite de Crayencour (1903-88), who went by the inexact anagrammatic pen name 'Marguarite Yourcenar', was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist, the first woman to be elected to the Académie française. Her first novel Alexis was published in 1929; in 1939 she was invited to America by her lover Grace Frick, where she lectured in comparative literature at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. When Mémoires d'Hadrien was first published in 1951, it was an immediate success and met with great critical acclaim. If you enjoyed Memoirs of Hadrian, you might like Robert Graves's I, Claudius, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'A timeless masterpiece ... every page is informed by her profound scholarship'Paul Bailey, author of Gabriel's Lament 'Yourcenar conjures worlds. She can make us share passion - for beauty, bodies, ideas, even power - and consider it closely at the same time. She is that most extraordinary thing: a sensual thinker'Independent on Sunday
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The Memoirs of Hadrian (Modern Library)
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MEMOIRS OF HADRIAN And Reflections On The Composition Of Memoirs Of Hadrian. Translated From The French By Grace Frick In Collaboration With The Author
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Hardcover. Etat : As New. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. grey full cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective brodart book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in very fine cond. as new. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (#1 in # line). decorative endpapers. b&w frontis. viii+347p+ publisher's statement. 44 b&w photo illustrations. bibliographic note. biography. french literature. ancient history. philosophy. psychology. historical fiction ~ At once a psychological novel and a meditation on history, Memoirs of Hadrian is written in the form of a testamentary letter from the Roman Emperor Hadrian (A.D. 76~138) to his successor, the youthful Marcus Aurelius. First published in English in 1954, the work endures as a tour de force of scholarship that uses Hadrian's extant writings and those of historians, friends, and enemies to vividly reconstruct the intimate life of the emperor and his entourage. Hadrian appears as one of the Western world's greatest liberals, a humanist who based man's chances of happiness and security on the culture that was Greece and the great organizing power that was Rome. Marguerite Yourcenar has painted an unforgettable self~portrait of Hadrian, as remarkable for its psychological depth as for its authentic re~creation of time and place "Such is the self~effacement, the erudition, the histrionic sympathy of Mme. Yourcenar that we read an imaginary document almost as if it were history,'' said The New York Times Book Review. "Her book has tonic vigor and a cool, white marble beauty.'' This Modern Library edition includes an afterword, 'Reflections on the Composition of Memoirs of Hadrian," and forty~five pages of photographs especially chosen by the author. N° de réf. du vendeur 4102501
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