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Memoirs of Hadrian
416 pages · 2005 · Rating 4.5
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Yourcenar reimagines the Emperor Hadrian's arduous boyhood, his triumphs and reversals, and finally, as emperor, his gradual reordering of a war-torn world. In Memoirs of Hadrian , written 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, Yourcenar crafts a classic about history and humanity that has received international acclaim for decades.








































