Memoirs of Hadrian And Reflections on the Composition of Memoirs of Hadrian James Russell Lowell Prize (1975) Civil Servant David Fitzgerald

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Memoirs of Hadrian And Reflections on the Composition of Memoirs of Hadrian James Russell Lowell Prize (1975) Civil Servant David FitzgeraldBoth 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