Title 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.

Publication Info.	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.
	©1974

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Location	Call No.	Status
West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult Fiction	F YOURCENAR MARGUERITE	Check Shelf

Edition	Paperback edition.
Description	347 pages, 44 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Contents	Animula vagula blandula -- Varius multiplex multiformis -- Tellus stabilita -- Saeculum aureum -- Disciplina augusta -- Patientia.
Summary	"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."--Jacket.
Subject	Hadrian, Emperor of Rome, 76-138 -- Fiction.
	Rome -- History -- Hadrian, 117-138 -- Fiction.
	Emperors -- Fiction.
	Hadrian, Emperor of Rome, 76-138 (OCoLC)fst00009972
	Emperors. (OCoLC)fst00908898
	Rome (Empire) (OCoLC)fst01204885
Chronological Term	117-138
Genre/Form	Biographical fiction.
	Historical fiction.
	Biographical fiction.
	Historical fiction.
	Biographical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726537
	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
	Historical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726640
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Biographical fiction.
	Historical fiction.
	Biographical fiction.
	Historical fiction.
	Fiction.
Added Author	Frick, Grace, translator.
	Yourcenar, Marguerite. Carnets de notes de "Mémoires d'Hadrien." English.
Added Title	Mémoires d'Hadrien. English
	Memoirs of Hadrian ; and, Reflections on the composition of Memoirs of Hadrian.
	Reflections on the composition of Memoirs of Hadrian.
ISBN	9780374529260 (pbk.)
	0374529264 (pbk.)

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