Memoirs of Hadrian (FSG Classics)

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.

Author: Marguerite Yourcenar

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Publication Date: May 18, 2005

Number of Pages: 416 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 0374529264

ISBN-13: 9780374529260