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Yourcenar, Marguerite.

Memoirs of Hadrian ; and, Reflections on the composition of Memoirs of Hadrian / Marguerite Yourcenar ; translated from the French by Grace Frick in collaboration with the author.

1st pbk. ed.

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005, c1974.

347 p., [44] p. of plates ; 21 cm.

"Both an exploration of character and a meditation on history, Marguerite Yourcenar's novel Memoirs of Hadrian has received international acclaim since its publication in France in 1951. Written in the form of a testamentary letter from the emperor Hadrian to his successor, the youthful Marcus Aurelius, the work is as extraordinary for its psychological depth as for its accurate reconstruction of the second century of our era. In it, Yourcenar reimagines Hadrian's arduous boyhood, his triumphs and reversals, and finally, as emperor, his reordering of a war-torn world."--BOOK JACKET.

Hadrian, Emperor of Rome, 76-138 -- Fiction.

Emperors -- Fiction.

Biographical fiction.

Historical fiction.

Rome -- History -- Hadrian, 117-138 -- Fiction.

Frick, Grace.

Yourcenar, Marguerite. Carnets de notes de "Mémoires d'Hadrien." English.

Mémoires d'Hadrien. English

Memoirs of Hadrian ; and, Reflections on the composition of Memoirs of Hadrian.

Reflections on the composition of Memoirs of Hadrian.

Includes bibliographical references.

Animula vagula blandula -- Varius multiplex multiformis -- Tellus stabilita -- Saeculum aureum -- Disciplina augusta -- Patientia.

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