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Condition: Good No jacket. Binding slightly loose and short pencil inscriptions on foxing flyleaf. Otherwise book is in very good condition. Plot / Content: The book takes the form of a letter from the Roman Emperor Hadrian (reigned 117 to 138) to his cousin and successor, Marcus Aurelius. The emperor meditates on military triumphs, love of poetry and music, philosophy and his passion for his lover Antinous. Background / Biography: Marguerite Yourcenar (8 June 1903 – 17 December 1987) was a French and Belgian novelist. She was the first woman elected to the Académie française in 1980, and the seventeenth to occupy Seat 3. Continued on Wikipedia. use the Search Box in the left column to find other book(s) by this writer on Arbery Books Reviews: Clicking on advertiser links on this site may allow these companies to gather and use information about your visit to this and other websites to provide you with advertisements about goods and services presumed to be of interest to you. |
Quote from this book "One late afternoon we were reading an abstruse work of Lcyophron, whom I enjoy for his daring juxtaposition of sounds, figures, and illusions, a complex system of echoes and reflections. A little apart from the others a young boy was listening, half attentive, half in dream, to those difficult strophes; I thought at once of some shepherd, deep in the woods, vaguely aware of a strange bird's cry. He had brought neither tablet nor style. Seated on the edge of the water's basin he trailed a hand idly over the fair, placid surface.." from chapter XVI' Secondhand booksellers |
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